Re: [lojban] Gerunds, infinitives and other technicalities

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 28 July 2011 12:34, Ross Ogilvie <oges007@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a member of NU that already does what you suggest below, namely
> su'u

What I suggest is that there be a NU for the purely syntactic purpose
of subordinating a bridi and not to additionally 'abstract' some
semantic element out of that bridi. "su'u" is still such an
'abstractor' as far as the official definition goes; it's not a truly
generic bridi subordinator, since a specific type of its 'abstraction'
is always implied by the x2.

Either "su'u" or "nu" could be made truly generic. I would prefer
"nu", for similar reasons that one might wish to have "joi" and not
"ju'e" or "jo'u" as the generic connective.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.