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Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

On 29 May 2013 12:47, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> It could be argued that in
>
> ME sumti MEhU
> NU sentence KEI
> NOI sentence KUhO
>
> the complement is infixed into the head, rather than to its right.

The significance of MEhU/KEI/KUhO are contingent upon the sumti/sentence (i.e. they are elidable depending on how the sumti/sentence ends), so there is a sense that these terminators, in their purely syntactic function, are dependents/complements not to ME/NU/NOI but to the sumti/sentence. In fact, they can often be replaced by the very terminators of the sumti/sentence for what they do.

mu'o

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