What is the difference between brivla and gismu?
brivla | gismu | Hyponyms |
A Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla.
* 1997, John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language ISBN 0966028309 [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=194]
* a.' ' 2001, Richard Curnow [http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/jbofihe/]
* a.' ' 2003, Pierre Abbat
A brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.
* 1997 , John W. Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language , ISBN 0966028309:
* 2005 , Brian D. Eubanks, Wicked Cool Java , [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1593270615&id=diqHjRjMhW0C&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=gismu&sig=595_-1oi-rueN1aFqJhXGlYn9Fc]:
* 2008 , Robin Turner and Nick Nicholas, Lojban for Beginners :[http://jbotcan.org/docs/l4b/less2.html][http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojban%20Tutorial:%20Lesson%202]
Gismu is a hyponym of brivla.
Gismu is a hypernym of brivla.
In lojban _ grammar terms the difference between brivla and gismu
is that brivla is a Lojban predicate word. Specifically, a word which may be used to express a selbri relation (a statement of truth of one kind or another) between a number of arguments. Gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla are all brivla while gismu is a brivla that is a basic Lojban root, rather than being derived through compounding or borrowing.brivla
English
(Lojban grammar)Noun
(brivla)- Brivla' are "content words", i.e., categorematic. When acting as selbri they are roughly comparable to verbs (or adjectives (or even nouns), if the selbri's arity is one), and when acting as sumti (e.g., due to being prefixed with "le") they are comparable to nouns. If a '''brivla''' modifies another one (thereby forming a "tanru"), the modifying '''brivla''' would be comparable to an adverb or adjective (*), depending on whether the modified ' brivla is acting as selbri or sumti, respectively. // Footnote: (*) - the modifying brivla could instead be comparable, in some cases, to the modified brivla's predicate.
- They often have no semantic meaning in themselves, though they may affect the semantics of brivla to which they are attached.
- Fix major bugs in the lexical analysis for cmafi'e (brivla mis-scanned as sequences of cmavo joined together.)
[http://web.archive.org/web/#*/http://phma.hn.org/Language/valfendi.html
- Currently, it lexes cmene, cmavo, and brivla', and checkes [''sic''] cmene and cmavo for validity, but does not do full validity checking of ' brivla.
Coordinate terms
* cmavo * cmeneHyponyms
* gismu * lujvo * fu'ivlaHolonyms
* tanruSee also
* ----gismu
English
(Lojban grammar)Noun
(gismu)- When two gismu are adjacent, the first one modifies the second, and the selbri takes its place structure from the rightmost word.
- There are over 1,300 root gismu in the Lojban vocabulary, and these structures form a very interesting ontology of their own.
- The main type of word used as a selbri is a gismu , or root-word.
- Each gismu' is exactly five letters long, and has one of two consonant-vowel patterns:CVCCV or CCVCV (e.g. rafsi or bridi). The '''gismu''' are built so as to minimize listening errors in a noisy environment. A '''gismu''' has at least two combining forms, known as rafsi. One is the '''gismu''' itself; one is the '''gismu''' with the final vowel deleted. Certain '''gismu''' have additional, shorter rafsi assigned. Up to three of these shorter rafsi may be assigned to a '''gismu''', depending on frequency of usage of the '''gismu''' in building complex concepts and on availability of these shorter rafsi. Short rafsi use only certain combinations of letters from the ' gismu , and are of the forms CCV, CVC, CVV or CV'V.
