PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN OLD VERSION. The current version is linked from The Complete Lojban Language.

17. List of Elidable Terminators

The following list shows all the elidable terminators of Lojban. The first column is the terminator, the second column is the selma'o that starts the corresponding construction, and the third column states what kinds of grammatical constructs are terminated. Each terminator is the only cmavo of its selma'o, which naturally has the same name as the cmavo.

    be'o    BE      sumti attached to a tanru unit
    boi     PA/BY       number or lerfu string
    do'u    COI/DOI     vocative phrases
    fe'u    FIhO        ad-hoc modal tags
    ge'u    GOI     relative phrases
    kei     NU      abstraction bridi
    ke'e    KE      groups of various kinds
    ku      LE/LA       description sumti
    ku'e    PEhO        forethought mekso
    ku'o    NOI     relative clauses
    li'u    LU      quotations
    lo'o    LI      number sumti
    lu'u    LAhE/NAhE+BO    sumti qualifiers
    me'u    ME      tanru units formed from sumti
    nu'u    NUhI        forethought termsets
    se'u    SEI/SOI     metalinguistic insertions
    te'u    various     mekso conversion constructs
    toi     TO      parenthetical remarks
    tu'u    TUhE        multiple sentences or paragraphs
    vau     (none)      simple bridi or bridi-tails
    ve'o    VEI     mekso parentheses

Last modified: Thu Oct 24 16:02:44 PDT 2002.

Please e-mail [email protected] with any comments or concerns.