On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:05 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:We often use the combination of "da/de/di" &
"broda/brode/brodi/brodo/brodu" when we describe the grammar by way of
syntactically indicating but not semantically specifying the sumti &
selbri spaces. For example:
da broda lo nu brode kei de lo brodi di
That is, some of us (including myself) tend to use a pair of "da/..."
& "broda/..." to explain the general structure of a particular
_expression_ or to suggest how to put together whatever sumti or selbri
for a certain form of _expression_.
Some nintadni would then likely get the impression that
whatever sumti <-- da
whatever selbri <-- broda
and perhaps, with the gimmicks of LE-sumtification and ME-selbrification, that
me da (is-whatever) = broda
lo broda (that which is-whatever) = da
That notion might also be informally driven by the appearance that
"da" and "broda" share an identical syllable.
The whole assumed correspondence between "da" & "broda" wouldn't be
correct, however. "da/..." are BOUND VARIABLEs, while "broda/..." are
ASSIGNABLE PRO-FORMs", which is an important distinction to make
regarding the practice of quantification. Also, there is the
selbri-type of bound variables -- "bu'a/bu'e/bu'i" -- and the
sumti-type of assignable pro-forms -- "ko'a/ko'e/ko'i/...". That is:
"broda" (assignable pro-form) aligns more with "ko'a" (assignable
pro-form) than with "da" (bound variable)
and
"da" (bound variable) aligns more with "bu'a" (bound variable) than
with "broda" (assignable pro-form)
These alignments may be comparable to that of "zo'e" & "co'e" as well.
With that in mind, which of the following combinations would most
finely substitute for the oft-used "da broda" in generalizing
grammatical structures:
ko'a broda
da bu'a
zo'e co'e
mu'o mi'e tijlan
da broda
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
--
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.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )
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