Subject: Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o)

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:09:04 -0400

On Friday 24 August 2001 19:03, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
> doi xorxes:
>
> .i mi puzi tcidu lei se casnu pe lu me mi moi li'u .i la .and carmi zanru
> .i la pier. .e la rob. na'e zanru .i mi tugni le go'i

.i mi ca zanru ru'e

Looking at the grammar, this is a particular case of 
tanru_unit_B_152 : ME_477 sumti_90 MEhU_gap_465 MOI_476
Thus "ta gerku moi" is ungrammatical, but "ta me lo gerku moi" is 
grammatical. ("me'u" is the terminator for "me" and can be elided here.) So 
what does it mean in the general case?

phma