Re: [lojban] Embedded bridi and scope

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> coi lojbo
>
> A fairly simple question: how do embedded bridi interact with scope? Do they
> have their own scope?

If you are asking whether they have their own prenex, the answer is yes.

> A motivating example, that if you can answer it should
> answer almost all my questions, is the following:
>
> .i mi ba'o terpa lo nu no da jundi
> is equivalent to which of the following:
> .i no da zo'u mi ba'o terpa lo nu da jundi
> .i mi ba'o terpa lo nu no da zo'u da jundi
>
> Intuition and convenience would say it's the latter, but I am really not
> 100% sure.

Yes it is.

The only exception I'm aware of that jump out of their natural prenex
are question words, which is somewhat weird but that's how they were
defined.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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