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