Re: 'Nor' in the World's Languages

Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
> I'm forwarding a (rather long) reply I recently made to Maarten van Wijk
> about a question he raised on the Linguist list.  My main question to you
> all is:
>
> In your conlangs, what kinds of logical connectives have you implemented?
    This is still being worked out in Seezzitonian, but for Gladilatian I
have:

fna word1 {fna word2} wo word3
    "exactly one of word1 {or word2} or word3"
    With two words this reduces to exclusive or.

hra word1 {hra word2} wo word3
    "word1 {or word2} or word3" (inclusive or)

la word1 {la word2} wo word3
    "even though word1 {and word2} still word3"

ma word1 {ma word2} we word3
    "if word1 {and word2} then word3"

ra word1 {ra word2} we word3
    "word1 {which is similar to word2} which is similar to word3"

sa word1 {sa word2} we word3
    "word1 {which is word2} which is word3"
    This is equivalent to apposition in English, and is used mostly for
        names.

xa word1 {xa word2} we word3
    "since word1 {and word2} therefore word3"

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

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                 Dennis Paul Himes    <>    himes@cshore.com
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