morphology

The four types of languages:

• Isolating (sapyvlakai)
• Inflecting (vlatikykai)

• Agglutinative (niprafkai)
• Polysynthetic (clajvokai)

la lojban. mo bangu .i xu sapivlakai go'i .i sapyvlakai joi clajvokai

What sort of language is Lojban ? (isolating?) part isolating, part polysynthetic Don't rafsi make it more agglutinative than polysynthetic?

Cases

• Case (tersu'i)
  • Nominative (gasnu)

• • Accusative (selri'a)
    • Doesn't this mean "that which is brought into being" (effected) rather than "that which is acted upon" (affected)? --mi'e braiyn

• • Genitive (ponse)
  • Dative (terdu'a)

• • Instrumental (selpli)
  • (another use for instrumental in IE) (selkansa)

• • Locative (selzva)
  • Prepositional (=locative in Slavic) (seltcita)

• • Ablative (tervi'u)
  • Vocative (selta'a)

• • Ergative (zukte)