Re: USAGE: objects of either directivity

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > Robert B Wilson sikyal:
> > 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.
Sorry, I used the Lojban terminology because it seemed to fit what I was talking
about, even though I'm anything but a Lojban expert.  I failed to consider
that there might be conlangers who didn't know the terms at all.  Duh. :)

> 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'.
The brivla is the specific word that carries the semantic meaning
of the bridi.  That is, the brivla is the verb, while the bridi is the
entire predicate, including the brivla and the sumti.

-Mark