[lojban] {soi} grammar

[djandus <jandew@gmail.com>]

So, most of the time, I pretty quickly understand where certain rules come from, but this one bothers me: why can't {soi} be able to grab two sumti automatically from the sentence? If this were the case, there would be two choices.

So, my idea is that all of the following are equivalent, with a choice at the end:

mi prami do soi vo'a vo'e

mi prami do soi vo'a

   mi prami do soi [se'u]  (automatically takes last two sumti)

or

   mi prami soi se'u do    (automatically takes immediately adjacent sumti)

The first two are discussed to be equivalent in CLL 7.8 but the last case is explicitly ungrammatical -- why? Either case doesn't seem too complicated, at least in simple situations, and if there's a complicated example where it doesn't work well, then the speaker would be expected to use the other forms for clarity.

mu'o mi'e djos

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