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Re: USAGE: objects of either directivity

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 18:48
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From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: objects of either directivity


> Robert B Wilson sikyal: > > > -- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote: > > > In English, there are several verbs, mostly of telling, which > > > can take an indirect and a direct object, as in "Tell me a story." > > > However, when the verb has only a direct object, that object can > > > fill either role: "Tell me." "Tell the story." It's like a bridi > > > with three sumti where the third is optional, but where there's > > > possibly > > > an implied "se te" before the brivla. > > Perhaps I missed another post on this, but: "bridi", "sumti", "brivla": > what are these words, and what do they mean? They look like Sanskrit > grammatical terms to me, mixed with an allusion to Spanish grammar. >
They're Lojban grammatical terms. AFAIK, 'bridi' is a predicate, and 'sumti' are, well, what a 'bridi' takes as arguments. I don't know about 'brivla'.
> -- > Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu > http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/ > http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog > > Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?" > > And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground > of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our > interpersonal relationship." > > And Jesus said, "What?" >

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