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Re: [lojban] [oz] Abstractors


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:23 AM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
la .xorxes. cu cusku di'e
For me, the important difference between zukte and gasnu is that the x1
of zukte has to be the agent of the x2 event, whereas for gasnu the
agent of x2 is usually someone other than the x1 of gasnu.

Usually, though it needn't be so. There are several {sez-___-gau} lujvo, and the gasnu1 can have a passive/patient role in the gasnu2.

Yes, a better way to put it may be this: zukte1 is the agent of the relationship in zukte2, which should therefore be agentive. OTOH, gasnu1 adds an agent place to the relationship in gasnu2, which may not even be agentive, and if it is agentive the two agent places will not automatically coalesce (although they could of course be filled with the same value).

 
Let's take {lo nu krici lo du'u virnu} as an example.

  (a) la .oz. cu kakne lo ka ce'u gasnu lo nu la cinfo cu krici lo du'u ri virnu
  (b) la .oz. cu kakne tu'a lo nu la cinfo cu krici lo du'u ri virnu
  (c) lo nu la cinfo cu krici lo du'u ri virnu cu jai se kakne la .oz.
  (d) lo nu la cinfo cu krici lo du'u ri virnu cu jai se kakne la .oz. fai lo ka ce'u gasnu ce'u

From (a) to (c), the event gets extracted from within the property, and (d) restates the predicate that connects the extracted event with the {kakne} predicate using {fai}. All four sentences should mean the same.

Well, in going from (a) to (b) you lose some information, you lose the explicit "gasnu". (b) could just as well come from "la oz cu kakne lo ka ce'u lifri lo nu la cinfo cu krici lo du'u ri virnu", or many other things. And I guess that's the source of my problem. I don't read "lo jai se kakne" as "events (one) can bring about", I read it as "things involved in relationships that can happen".

I guess with "... zukte ro lo se kakne be vo'a" you get the full meaning directly, whereas with "gasnu ro lo jai se kakne be vo'a" you need a longer route to get to the full meaning: "... gasnu ro da poi ... kakne lo nu gasnu ke'a" (not sure which pronoun goes in the second ... to point to the first one).

But okay, I understand how it works now, although I find it somewhat complicated.

mu'o mi'e xorxes 

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