Contradictory negation involving BAI cmavo is performed by appending ``-nai'' (of selma'o NAI) to the BAI. A common use of modals with ``-nai'' is to deny a causal relationship:
13.1) mi nelci do mu'inai le nu do nelci mi I like you, but not because you like me.
So, there's that.
That leads me to another question though. One of the examples that the CLL used shows a scenario like {broda bai tu'a mi} which seemed funny to me. After looking up {tu'a} I see:
tu'a LAhE the bridi implied by extracts a concrete sumti from an unspecified abstraction; equivalent to le nu/su'u [sumti] co'e
Now, is the output of {tu'a ko'a} a sumti or a bridi? Because the two things are not at all the same (BAI takes a sumti, not a bridi!). It seems that {tu'a} produces a sumti (that's how everyone seems to use it anyawy), but if that's the case then "the bridi implied by" seems very misleading.
I have seen (and often use) {broda va'o lo nu brode} to mean "broda when/if/under-conditions lo nu brode". But what if I want to say something like: "go visit john unless he doesn't want you to". Can I use {BAInai} to mean something like the inverse of {BAI}? e.g. {ko vitke la djan va'onai lo nu ri na djica}.Or if I say {mi viska do sepi'onai lo darctatci} have I just said "I see you without using a telescope", something entirely different, or something non-grammatical?pe'u ki'emi'e pafcribe