Re: [lojban] the myth of monoparsing

[Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

2015-02-04 6:28 GMT+03:00 Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>:

On Tuesday, February 03, 2015 21:20:05 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> What are the examples of polyparsing?
> Is "Flash strode up to Ming.  He struck him" one?
> Is "Fred saw a plane flying over Zurich" one?

The first is referential ambiguity and can be done just as easily in Lojban:
"la .flac. cadzu jbize'a la .min. i ko'a darxi ko'e".

Well, I'd translate that using {lo bi'unai nakni} in the second sentence since {ko'a} and {ko'e} in your example aren't assigned to anything whereas in  English they clearly refer anaphorically/cataphorically to someone mentioned.

English has words which belong to more than one part of speech, some with
completely different meanings.

This isn't related to monoparsing directly. This is called polysemy, isn't it?

So one can say "Swallows fly" and mean "lo
xlidoni

please, add {xlidoni}  to jbovlaste.

cu vofli" or "tulcti lo sfani". (Both can also be translations of
"Swallow flies", as Lojban has no grammatical number.)

mi cpacu lo ranpimlu lo datka .i mi mo'ini'a cpare lo xirma

mu'omi'e .piier.
--
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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