Re: 'Nor' in the World's Languages

Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
>>> In your conlangs, what kinds of logical connectives have you implemented?
>>
>>     This is still being worked out in Seezzitonian, but for Gladilatian I
>> have:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> hra word1 {hra word2} wo word3
>>     "word1 {or word2} or word3" (inclusive or)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> za word1 {za word2} we word3
>>     "word1 {and word2} and word3"
>>
>>     For each conjunction there is no upper limit to the number of
>> conjuncts.
>
>> Nested conjunctions are unambiguous due to having one word before the last
>> conjunct and another before the others.  So A and B or C is:
>> za A we hra B wo C
>>     for A and (B or C), and
>> hra za A we B wo C
>>     for (A and B) or C
>
> Using such "complemented conjunctions" gives a natural bracketing of
> logical terms.  Perhaps we might call them "self-segregating
> conjunctions"?
    Sure.

> Dennis, you've used "wo" as the "complement" to your first two
> conjunctions, and "we" as the "complement" to the rest.  Since word order
> brackets them unambiguously, it would be possible to use just one form (eg
> "wo") for all complements, wouldn't it?
    Yes.

>  Taking this one step futher, could the complement be represented by the
> null morpheme Ø?  Eg
>  za A hra B C = A and (B or C),
> and
>  hra za A B C = (A and B) or C.
    Not for all conjunctions.  For instance:

>> fna word1 {fna word2} wo word3
>>     "exactly one of word1 {or word2} or word3"
fna A fna B wo C
    is false if A, B, and C are all true, but

fna A wo fna B wo C
    is true if A, B, and C are all true.

If we left out the "wo"s they would both be "fna A fna B C".

> Hmm, this is starting to look a lot like RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)!
    It actually looks more like regular Polish Notation.

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