From jjllambias@hotmail.com Mon Jun 26 18:37:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25110 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 01:37:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 01:37:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.122) by mta3 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 01:37:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 60021 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jun 2000 01:37:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20000627013724.60020.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.152.201 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:37:24 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.152.201] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Complements and adjuncts Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:37:24 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la kolin cusku di'e >The question is, does Lojban distinguish complements and adjuncts? > >At first sight, the answer is yes: by design, the defined terbri of a >selbri >are complements (i.e. its meaning is incomplete without them), and any >additional terbri attached by sumtcita must be adjuncts (optional extras >specification, but not an essential part of the meaning). I think sumtcita changes the relationship expressed by the selbri. A relationship P(x,y) between two arguments is changed into a relationship Q(x,y,z) between three arguments. The meanings of the two relationships are of course related, but strictly they are no longer the same one, even though they share the same selbri word. The new relationship is more ad-hoc than the original one, but its ad-hoc meaning is incomplete without its arguments just as for the original relationship. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com