[bpfk] Proposed grammar change: BIhI with only one GAhO

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

Currently if BIhI is preceded by GAhO, it must also be followed by GAhO, and 
vice versa. The reason, as far as I can figure out, is to avoid ambiguity if 
two BIhI occur with one GAhO and nothing else between them. The only way that 
I know of that this can happen is if an afterthought BIhI joins two phrases, 
the second of which is a forethought BIhI phrase:

mi klama fo le berti jedji'o ku bi'o ga'o bi'i ke'i gi la beNIN. gi la 
GLApagos.

It is useful, particularly when "mi'i" is applied to a more-than-one 
dimensional space, to speak of an interval that is closed or open at one end 
(the center) and neither closed nor open at the other. I therefore propose 
the following change:

*When BIhI is used in afterthought, it can be preceded or followed by GAhO, 
and can have GAhO on both sides, one, or neither.
*When BIhI is used in forethought, it is neither preceded nor followed by 
GAhO. The GAhO, if any, is placed instead after "gi", as is done now 
with "nai" on logical conjunctions. (jbofi'e claims that it is grammatical to 
put "nai" after the second "gi", but not the first, in a "bi'igi ... gi ..." 
construction.) Is this a sensible change?

Pierre
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