Re: USAGE: objects of either directivity

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From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
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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