Re: [lojban] RECORD: another negative

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> {na} is a wide-scope negative, that is, its scope is the entire bridi in
> which it occurs,
> regardless of where it occurs in that bridi.

Semantically you are right, but syntactically "na" is permitted only just
before the selbri.

>  And wide-scope includes also
> the prenex.
> Thus {da na broda} = {na da broda}= {da broda na}={na su'o da zo'u da broda}.

"na da broda" and "da broda na" are ungrammatical.  If I heard them, I
would suppose that someone was incorrectly eliding "ku" from "naku"
and interpret them as "naku".
 
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