- Table of Contents
- Preface — lidne prosa
- 1. Sounds, names and a few
attitudes
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Special Characters
- Alphabet
- 'Correct' pronunciation
- Lojban with attitude!
- Lojban Names (cmene)
- Lojban words as names
- Answers to Exercises
- 2. Relationships and Places
- Names and relationships
- Take your places...
- Determining place structure
- gismu as sumti
- Changing Places
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 3. Commands, Questions, and Possessives
- Commands
- Softening the blow...
- Questions
- Possessives
- More Possessives
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 4. Numbers, and a few more articles
- Basic numbers
- Numbers and articles
- Proportions
- Quantities
- Number Questions
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 5. Times, days, dates (and abstractions)
- What is the time?
- Times and Events
- Times and Events, Improved: Conversion
- Times and Events, Improved #2: sumti tcita
- Days and Months
- Dates
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 6. Time and Space — basic Lojban 'tenses'
- Terminators
- Tenses
- Time with sumti
- Time and selbri
- Space
- More negativity
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 7. Getting Personal: Pro-sumti and more abstractions
- Referring back
- Assigning pro-sumti
- Acronyms
- Direct quotations
- Indirect quotations
- Some more personal pro-sumti
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 8. Swapping things round: conversion and simple
lujvo
- selbri
conversions
- sumti conversions
- lujvo
- Negative lujvo
- Reflexives and reciprocals
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 9. Let me qualify that: internal sumti and relative clauses
- Internal sumti
- More internal sumti
- Internal sumti
tcita
- Relative clauses
- ke'a
- Restrictive and non-restrictive
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 10. Cause and Effect
- Physical causation
- Motivation
- Justification and Implication
- Converting causes
- Connecting sentences
- Why?
- Summary
- Answers to Exercises
- 11. Putting it together: Lojban connectives
- Types of logical connectives
- Connecting sumti
- Connectives in tanru
- Connecting bridi tails
- Asking about connectives
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 12. Aspect, Vocatives, Loan Words, and Equalities
- Aspect
- More Aspects
- Vocatives
- Loan words
- Equalities
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 13. Keeping it flowing: Textual cmavo
- Lojban with lots more attitude
- My attitudinals! All mine! (And you?)
- Discursives
- Erasure
- Bits and pieces
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 14. Why didn't I think of that before? More
connectives
- Forethought connectives
- Non-logical connectives
- tanru grouping
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- 15. Singled out: Isolating specific places
- Indirect questions
- Properties
- From sumti to abstraction: tu'a
- Raising: jai
- Summary
- Answers to exercises
- A. Unsettled Business
- Embedded vo'a
- Unfilled places in ka-abstractions
- B. Vocabulary