Loglan/Overview of Loglan/Arguments

These form a set of words that you use to fill in the blanks of the predicates. They form the objects or agents that you talk about. Arguments come in three forms: Names ../Predicates/ as arguments ../Little words/ as arguments We use a little word to tell the difference between a name and a normal predicate word used as an argument; either le or la. The little word le means the one I call and the little word la means the one that actually is. The word 'le' then forms a prefix for a description and the little word la forms a prefix for a name. Names Names in Loglan come in two types: Proper Names Predicate Names All proper names end in a consonant and can have any number of letters. We can use predicates as names if we use the little word la first. As predicates together form a metaphor we use the little word gu to show where the name ends and the main predicate of the sentence starts. Examples Proper names: Frans - France Sol - Sun Romas - Rome Predicate Names la farfu - father / dad la ratcu - Rat Predicates as arguments You can use predicates words as arguments to the main predicate of a sentence to form the object or agent of a predicate. To do so, you need to add the little word le to show that the you mean the one I call and then use the little word gu to show when the argument predicate comes to an end and the main sentence predicate begins. Examples le nirli gu tcatro - the girl is driving (a vehicle) le farfu gu kamla - the father comes le hasfa gu redro - the house is red le prano mrenu gu goztsefui - the running man is late Little words as arguments Loglan has a number of little words that you can use for common occurring actors or objects. Examples tu - you ti - this toi - that ( the last mentioned remark) da - he / she / it