Re: [lojban] {la .alis.} book

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

2015-05-31 20:12 GMT+03:00 And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>:

Gleki Arxokuna, On 31/05/2015 17:53:

2015-05-31 19:36 GMT+03:00 Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org <mailto:phma@bezitopo.org>>:

    There are parts of speech in Lojban that
    don't exist in natlangs that I know of, such as terminators.


the right part of circumposition is called "terminator" in Lojban.

That's an interesting and potentially insightful definition, but it turns an awful lot of things into adpositions.

oops, true. For LE  I'm not aware of any languages that have prefixes to turn verbs into nouns. Definitely LE are not articles in it normal linguistic sense (although {le} may have some semantics of them).

Maybe it would be better to say that the morphophonological form of a phrase is derived not by simple concatenation of the morphophonological forms of the phrase's constituents but rather by 'circumcatenation', with the morphophonological form of the head wrapped around the morphophonological form of its complement.

I'd say that terminators are rather explicit markers of nodes of the tree, something that many natlangs and colloquial Lojban avoid by rephrasing and what in the rest of cases is resolved by context in natlangs and is absent in correct Lojban.

 

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