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Re: [lojban] Re: Questions about Lojban



On Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:25:41 And Rosta wrote:
> No. The ambiguity is syntactic. -Ing has no polysemy; it is merely the
> default inflectional form of the verb.

"-ing" is polysemous, though I don't think it's relevant to this sentence. 
It's both the present active participle, previously "-ind", cognate to German 
"-end", French "-ant" and Greek "-ων"; and the verbal noun, cognate to German 
"-ung". "I stopped flying" can be parsed with both meanings of "-ing", which 
doesn't change the meaning of the sentence much.

Pierre
-- 
ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

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