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Re: [lojban] 'nai' and .UI and ambiguity
From: Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>
de'i li 5:2 vecu'u le notci
neme'e la'o xy. <94981535401@out.newmail.net> xy.
la'o xy. Adam Raizen xy. pu ciska di'e la jbomriste :
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Adam Raizen wrote:
> From: "Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>
>
> Since 'nai' has more uses than just within an indicator phrase,
> allowing it anywhere would cause ambiguity, since in some cases
> we wouldn't know whether it's negating an unspecified .UI or serving
> some other role.
>
> Speaking of which, how are we to interpret the pattern
>
> broda je ge'e nai brode
>
> Does the 'nai' polarly negate the indicator, or does it pick up after
> the indicator ends and contradictorily negate brode? The parser
> doesn't answer this by fiat, since it doesn't seem to analyze within
> the "je ge'e nai" phrase.
I think the nai binds as closely as possible, in this case to the UI
indicator. If you need to force the end of a UI so that nai binds to the
thing the UI qualifies, you can stick "y" after the UI, e.g
broda je ge'e y nai brode
I don't know whether this is the 'official' solution though!
Cheers
Richard
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