John Woldemar Cowan

“ Of course, if the man is in fact putting his hands into another’s pockets, or another’s hands into his pockets, the fact can be specified.
Finally, the elidable terminator for GOI cmavo is “ge'u” of selma'o GEhU; it is almost never required. However, if a logical connective immediately follows a sumti modified by a relative phrase, then an explicit “ge'u” is needed to allow the connective to affect the relativized sumti rather than the sumti of the relative phrase. ”

“ Here is an example of a description used in a possessive sumti:
7.4) le le nanmu ku karce cu blanu The (associated-with-the man) car is blue. The man’s car is blue. Note the explicit “ku” at the end of the possessor sumti, which prevents the selbri of the possessor sumti from merging with the selbri of the main description sumti. Because of the need for this “ku”, the most common kind of possessor sumti are pro-sumti, especially personal pro-sumti, which require no elidable terminator. Descriptions are more likely to be attached with relative phrases. ”

“ A relative clause inside the “ku”, whether before or after the selbri, is reckoned part of the name; a relative clause outside the “ku” is not. Therefore,
6.10) mi viska la nanmu poi terpa le ke'a xirma [ku] I see that-named (“man which fears the of-IT horse”) . I see Man Afraid Of His Horse. says that the speaker sees a person with a particular name, who does not necessarily fear any horses, whereas
6.11) mi viska la nanmu ku poi terpa le ke'a xirma. I see that-named ( “Man” ) which fears the of-IT horse. I see the person named “Man” who is afraid of his horse. ”

“ Something is intrinsically (or inalienably) possessed by someone if the possession is part of the possessor, and cannot be changed without changing the possessor. In the case of Example 3.5, people are usually taken to intrinsically possess their arms: even if an arm is cut off, it remains the arm of that person. ”

“ Finally, the cmavo “ne” and “no'u” stand to “pe” and “po'u”, respectively, as “noi” does to “poi” — they provide incidental information:
3.16) le blabi gerku ne mi cu batci do The white dog, incidentally-associated-with me, bites you. The white dog, which is mine, bites you. In Example 3.16, the white dog is already fully identified (after all, presumably the listener knows which dog bit him or her!) . The fact that it is yours is merely incidental to the main bridi claim.
Distinguishing between “po'u” and “no'u” can be a little tricky. ”

“ Multiple relative clauses: “zi'e” zi'e ZIhE relative clause joiner Sometimes it is necessary or useful to attach more than one relative clause to a sumti. This is made possible in Lojban by the cmavo “zi'e” (of selma'o ZIhE) , which is used to join one or more relative clauses together into a single unit, thus making them apply to the same sumti. For example:
4.1) le gerku poi blabi zi'e poi batci le nanmu cu klama The dog which is white and which bites the man goes. ”