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Rob: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:16:00PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > But I'd also query the idea that predicates are a very specific > > grammatical class. I'm not sure which class Rob means, since > > there isn't a class in Lojban called 'predicates'. > > Lexeme BRIVLA. > > I'm simply avoiding using Lojban jargon. I realized that was the reason. BRIVLA is, as you know, not a morphological class; a crude inspection of phonological form is not sufficient to show whether something is a brivla. And cmavo can, in principle if not in practice, belong to BRIVLA. But, quibbling apart, I accept the basic point that BRIVLA is a coherent word-class. I just don't think too much should be made of a dichotomous division between BRIVLA on the one hand and all other selmaho (wordclasses) on the other. --And.