History: Move NAI to CAI

Source of version: 1 (current)

The usual objection to the proposal of allowing NAI after any word is "but that would require defining the effect of ''nai'' on every single word", as if that was an impossible task. To address that objection, I present here how NAI could interact with each one of Lojban's 124 grammatical word classes. Some of them are already allowed by the grammar. Most of them are obvious. Those that are not obvious are at least plausible, in my opinion. !! NAI and magic words || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BAhE NAI | Yes | emphatic/nonce NAI FAhO NAI | Yes | NAI is absorbed by FAhO before it can be processed LOhU NAI | Yes | NAI is quoted as any word SA NAI | Yes | NAI replaces the words erased by SA SI NAI | Yes | NAI replaces the word erased by SI SU NAI | Yes | NAI at the beginning of text ZEI NAI | Yes | NAI is joined into a lujvo with word preceding ZEI; any-word ZEI any-word NAI = na'e any-word ZEI any-word ZO NAI | Yes | NAI is quoted by ZO; ZO any-word NAI = na'e bo ZO any-word ZOI NAI | Yes | NAI is used as delimiter word; ZOI any-word ... any-word NAI = na'e bo ZOI any-word ... any-word || !! NAI and sumti || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BE NAI | No | BE NAI term = BE term NAI BEI NAI | No | BEI NAI term = BEI term NAI FA NAI | No | FA na'e bo, FA NAI KU = FA KU KOhA NAI | No | na'e bo KOhA KU NAI | No | na'e bo LA/LE, NA KU NAI = NA NAI KU, tag KU NAI = tag NAI KU, FA KU NAI = FA KU LA NAI | No | na'e bo LA LAhE NAI | No | na'e bo LAhE LE NAI | No | na'e bo LE LEhU NAI | No | na'e bo LOhU LI NAI | No | na'e bo LI LIhU NAI | No | na'e bo LU LOhO NAI | No | na'e bo LI LUhU NAI | No | na'e bo LAhE/NAhE BO || !! NAI and selbri || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BEhO NAI | No | tanru-unit-2 linkargs NAI = na'e tanru-unit-2 linkargs BRIVLA NAI | No | na'e BRIVLA GOhA NAI | No | na'e GOhA ME NAI | No | na'e ME MEhU NAI | No | na'e ME MOI NAI | No | na'e ... MOI NUhA NAI | No | na'e NUhA || !! NAI and sentences || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect CEhE NAI | No | CEhE NA KU CEhE CU NAI | No | CU NA GEhU NAI | No | NOI ke'a NA broda GOI NAI | No | NOI ke'a NA broda I NAI | No | negates the following sentence KEI NAI | No | NU subsentence KEI NAI = NU NA KU ZOhU subsentence KEI KUhO NAI | No | NOI subsentence KUhO NAI = NOI NA KU ZOhU subsentence KUhO LU NAI | Yes | NAI at beginning of text NA NAI | No | ja'a nai = na, na nai = ja'a NOI NAI | No | NOI NA KU ZOhU NU NAI | Yes | NU NA KU ZOhU NUhI NAI | No | NUhI NAI ... NUhU = NUhI naku NUhI ... NUhU NUhU NUhU NAI | No | terms NUhU NAI = na ku terms NUhU TUhE NAI | No | NAI at the beginning of text TUhU NAI | No | TUhE text TUhU NAI = TUhE NAI text TUHU VAU NAI | No | terms VAU NAI = naku terms VAU VUhO NAI | No | VUhO NAI relative-clauses = VUhO relative-clause NAI [ZIhE relative-clause NAI] ... ZIhE NAI | No | ZIhE NAI relative-clause = ZIhE relative-clause NAI ZOhU NAI | No | ZOhU NA KU ZOhU || !! NAI and connectives || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect A NAI | Yes | negates second argument of A BIhI NAI | Yes | as now GA NAI | Yes | negates first argument of GA GI NAI | Yes | negates following argument of connective GIhA NAI | Yes | negates second argument of GIhA GUhA NAI | Yes | negates first argument of GUhA JA NAI | Yes | negates second argument of JA JOI NAI | Yes | as now PEhE NAI | No | preceding NA KU for logical connectives, other-than for non-logical || !! NAI and tags || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BAI NAI | Yes | fi'o NA broda, where BAI = fi'o broda CAhA NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where CAhA = fi'o broda CUhE NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where CUhE = fi'o broda FAhA NAI | Yes | fi'o NA broda, where FAhA = fi'o broda FEhE NAI | No | time aspects FEhU NAI | No | FIhO selbri FEhU NAI = FIhO NA selbri FEhU FIhO NAI | No | FIhO NAI selbri FEhU = FIhO NA selbri FEhU KI NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where KI = fi'o broda MOhI NAI | No | non-motion PU NAI | Yes | fi'o NA broda, where PU = fi'o broda ROI NAI | Yes | number ROI NAI = fi'o NA broda, where number ROI = fi'o broda TAhE NAI | Yes | fi'o NA broda, where TAhE = fi'o broda VA NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where VA = fi'o broda VEhA NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where VEhA = fi'o broda VIhA NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where VIhA = fi'o broda ZAhO NAI | Yes | fi'o NA broda, where ZAhO = fi'o broda ZEhA NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where ZEhA = fi'o broda ZI NAI | No | fi'o NA broda, where ZI = fi'o broda || !! NAI and indicators and free modifiers || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect CAI NAI | Yes | as now COI NAI | Yes | as now DAhO NAI | No | recover pro-assign DOhU NAI | No | unvocative marker; not speaking to you ... DOI NAI | No | unvocative marker; not speaking to you ... FUhE NAI | No | negate composite indicator FUhO NAI | No | negate composite indicator NAI NAI | No | ja'ai nai = nai, nai nai = ja'ai SEhU NAI | No | SEI NAI / SOI NAI SEI NAI | No | SEI na ku SOI NAI | No | non-reciprocity TO NAI | Yes | NAI at the beginning of text TOI NAI | No | TO text TOI NAI = TO NAI text TOI UI NAI | Yes | opposite UI XI NAI | No | superscript Y NAI | Yes | NAI || !! NAI and numbers and lerfu-strings || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BOI NAI | No | other than (number BOI)/(lerfu-string BOI) BU NAI | No | other than (... BU) BY NAI | No | other than BY FOI NAI | No | other than (TEI lerfu-string FOI) LAU NAI | No | cancel letteral shift MAI NAI | No | ( number | lerfu-string) MAI NAI = other than (number | lerfu-string) MAI PA NAI | No | other than PA TEI NAI | No | other than (TEI lerfu-string FOI) || !! NAI and mex || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BIhE NAI | No | other than (operator) FUhA NAI | No | other than (FUhA rp-expression) JOhI NAI | No | na'e bo JOhI KUhE NAI | No | other than (PEhO ... KUhE) MAhO NAI | No | na'e MAhO MOhE NAI | No | na'e bo MOhE NAhU NAI | No | na'e NAhU NIhE NAI | No | na'e bo NIhE PEhO NAI | No | other than (PEhO ... KUhE) TEhU NAI | No | na'e/na'ebo ... TEhU VEhO NAI | No | other than (VEI mex VEhO) VEI NAI | No | other than (VEI mex VEhO) VUhU NAI | No | na'e VUhU || !! NAI and the rest || Selmaho | Now? | Proposed effect BO NAI | No | negates what follows in accordance with rules for that structure CEI NAI | No | (other than selbri) assign CMENE NAI | No | incorporated to the name CO NAI | No | no tanru inversion GAhO NAI | No | ke'inai = ga'o, ga'onai = ke'i JAI NAI | No | no modal conversion KE NAI | No | negates bracketed structure in accordance with rules for that structure KEhE NAI | No | negates bracketed structure in accordance with rules for that structure NAhE NAI | No | na'e nai = je'a, je'a nai = na'e, no'e nai = other than neutral point, to'e nai = je'a (as a polar extreme) NIhO NAI | No | ni'onai = no'i, no'inai = ni'o RAhO NAI | No | pro-assign non-update SE NAI | No | no conversion ||