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can there be more than one bridi tail in a sentence? #505

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lagleki opened this issue Sep 28, 2023 · 1 comment
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can there be more than one bridi tail in a sentence? #505

lagleki opened this issue Sep 28, 2023 · 1 comment
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lagleki commented Sep 28, 2023

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Section 14.9. Compound bridi:

Example 14.49. 

mi	klama	le	zarci	.ije	mi	nelci	la	djan.
I	go-to	the	market,	and	I	like	that-named	John.
is equivalent in meaning to the compound bridi:

Example 14.50. 

mi	klama	le	zarci	gi'e	nelci	la	djan.
I	go-to	the	market	and	like	that-named	John.
As Example 14.50 indicates, giheks are used in afterthought to create compound bridi; gi'e is the gihek corresponding to “and”. The actual phrases klama le zarci and nelci la djan. that the gihek connects are known as “bridi-tails”, because they represent (in this use) the “tail end” of a bridi, including the selbri and any following sumti, but excluding any sumti that precede the selbri:

Example 14.51. 

mi	ricfu	gi'e	klama	le	zarci
I	am-rich	and	go-to	the	market.
In Example 14.51, the first bridi-tail is ricfu, a simple selbri, and the second bridi-tail is klama le zarci, a selbri with one following sumti.

However, chapter 21 has

sentence 40 =
[terms [CU #]] bridi-tail

so no sentence can have more than one bridi-tail.

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Specify the difference between surface (brisni) grammar and predicate logic (bridi).

Emphasize .ijek expansion of any gihek sentence.

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lagleki commented Sep 28, 2023

Alternative: dont pay attention to BNF rule names. consider "bridi-tail" rule similar to "paragraphs" rule.

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