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> (B) lo prenu poi ro da zo'u ke'a djica lo nu ke'a viska da
> "people that are such that for all X, they want to see X"
>
> zo'u in this fragment is logically meaningless because of lack of main
> bridi. If there were main bridi, the prenex could be put out:
>
> roda zo'u ko'a prenu ije ko'a djica lo nu ko'a viska da
>
> And then it becomes logically analyzable.
> Prenex in noi-clause is only a pseudo-prenex that is logically meaningless.
Why should the relative clause care about the main bridi? The relative
clause in (B) is like a predicate that attaches to {prenu} with {je}.
{poi ro da zo'u ...} could be rewritten {poi ckaji lo ka ro da zo'u
...}, and (B) could be rewritten as {lo prenu je ckaji be lo ka ...}.
At what point do you think does it stop being equivalent?
> (D) ma'a ca ro xavdei lo ka vokta'a cu simxu, soi ku'i na ku ro da
> poi jbopre zo'u lo nu da pagzu'e ke'a cu dikni
> "On every Saturday we have vocal chats, which however is such
> that not every Lojbanist is such that their taking part in them occurs
> regularly."
>
> No problem here. My main problem was this:
> what if some xoi-clauses and soi-clauses in a sentence have each prenex?
> which prenex will be regarded as outmost?
>
> However, considering (D), I understood the logical property of
> xoi/soi-clause.
> They are statements independent of the main bridi. Logically, {soi},
> {xoi} and {se'u} plays the same role as {to} {toi}.
This may be true for {soi}, but I'm not at all sure it's true for {xoi}.
There are two options for {xoi}: it's either restrictive or
non-restrictive. If it is one of the two, then we don't have a word for
the other and vice versa. There should really be two {xoi}. Let's call
them {Pxoi} and {Nxoi}. There is an important difference between (E) and
(F):
(E) so'i verba cu krixa Pxoi fanza
"Many children are yelling annoyingly."
(There may be children there whose yelling isn't annoying)
(F) so'i verba cu krixa Nxoi fanza
"Many children are yelling, which is annoying."
(Every yelling child is annoying)
Which one is {xoi} supposed to be?