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[lojban] Re: Logical connectives



On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it correct to say that when using logical connectives like in: {mi
> cutka ti .a  ta} , {ti .a ta} is a single sumti?

>From a grammatical (syntactical) point of view, the connected
construction functions as a single sumti, yes.

>From a logical point of view, they are two sumti. "mi citka ti .a ta"
is logically equivalent to "mi citka ti .ija mi citka ta". This
differs from the "non-logical" sumti connectives, for which the syntax
does match the logical structure.

> Also, if I had abstractions {le nu ... kei .e le nu ... kei .e le nu
> ... kei} are the {kei} elidable?

It depends on what the "..." is. Sometimes kei will be elidable, sometimes not.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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