Subject: RE: [lojban] lo, ku, and poi

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:50:11 +0100

Adam:
> The book ch. 8.6 (p. 178-179), makes a distinction between a relative 
> clause before and after the "ku" which terminates the sumti, 
> especially when the relative clause is introduced by "noi". Does this 
> distinction still hold up when the relative clause is introduced 
> by "poi"? 

You are asking specifically about lo + poi, I take it?
This matters, because positioning relative to KU definitely matters for 
loi + poi, le + poi, lo + noi. 

I think the le + poi case probably carries over to lo + poi:

re lo vo pendo be mi poi citno (ku)
"Two of my four young friends"

re lo vo pendo be mi ku poi citno
"Two of the young ones among my four friends"

re lo vo pendo noi citno (ku)
"two of my four friends, who are all four of them young"

re lo vo pendo ku noi citno
= two of my four friends are young

> For example (from the lessons), does
> 
> lo jgita poi zo'e bevri vi le janco
> 
> claim that all jgita are carried on the shoulder, or does it take at 
> least one thing from among the set of all jgita that are carried on 
> the shoulder?

The latter.

--And.