Subject: Re: [lojban] More lexing curiosities - la'i within cmene?

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:31:38 -0400

On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Richard Curnow scripsit:
>> The reference grammar makes specific mention of "la", "lai" and "doi"
>> not being allowed within cmene if preceded by a vowel.
>> 
>> Why does the same rule not apply to la'i? 
>
>It does a fortiori, since "la'i" contains "la".

But then why is "lai" listed separately? Let's take some examples:

baladaron breaks into ba la daron.
balaidaron breaks into ba lai daron.
badoidaron breaks into ba doi daron.
bala'idaron breaks into ba la'i daron.
bala'udaron cannot break into ba la 'udaron because a word cannot begin with
y'y. Nor does it break into ba la'u daron because la'u is not special before
cmene.

So the rule should be that if any of the lerpoi "la", "lai", "la'i", or "doi"
occurs in a word ending in a consonant, with the lerpoi immediately followed by
a consonant and either preceded by a vowel or at the beginning of the word, the
lerpoi falls off and becomes a separate cmavo, and anything that preceded the
lerpoi falls off from it.

phma