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As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?
li
marks the predicate of a sentence, turning the content
phrase following it into a predicate.
For given sentence x li y
, the x
y
s.
For example, if a jan li pona
, the jan
pona
s.
This can mean either
y
is passively applied to x
,
or
x
is actively applying y
to an unmentioned object z
.
Given that y
is applied to x
, this can be from:
xis
y;
x li y x
xis
y-related;
x li x y
Alternatively, x
applies y
to object z
; x li y e z
.
This can mean:
z li y tan x, in which case the
z
ys.
x li jo e y la, x li ijo e z kepeken y