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Three grammar questions
In the L.A. Whittaker group three questions came up.
1. la bantas. mlatu -- Bantha is a cat.
Is /cu/ required, or conversely, is "bantas. mlatu" (Bantha
runner?) a tanru? Or is this suppressed merely because the first
term is a name?
2. la bantas. cu klama fi le stizu mi -- Bantha goes from the chair to
me? or via me? After an explicit caselink, following unnumbered
sumti fill unoccupied cases in order, or numbers after the
explicit one?
3. ko'a stizu -- it is a chair (from lesson 2). Am I correct that this
is technically incorrect since ko'a has not been assigned an
antecedent with goi? Correct would be ti goi ko'a /cu/ stizu
4. All of us had a lot of resistance to the pauses after names,
particularly zo lojban. I even told them (incorrectly) that it
is a lujvo. (My excuse: I'm used to thinking of N as a vowel.)
-- jimc