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| Contexts: | L-Connectives occur in 3 context-specific and 1 context-free form: (1) between terms (i.e., arguments or predicates) where they are unmarked; (2) between words in predicate expressions, where they are marked with c; (3) between sentences, where they are marked with i and c; and (4) in any of these in a form marked by a leading prefix k- (possibly with a suffix of -noi), and with a trailing …ki (or …kinoi). |
| English Expressions | Between Terms (1) |
Between Words (2) |
Between Sentences (3) |
Context-Free (4) |
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| or (inclusive sense) | a | ca | ica | ka | ki |
| and | e | ce | ice | ke | ki |
| if and only if / means | o | co | ico | ko | ki |
| whether | u | cu | icu | nuku | ki |
| whether …, … | nuu | nucu | inucu | ku | ki |
| only if | noa | noca | inoca | kanoi | ki |
| not … and … | noe | noce | inoce | kenoi | ki |
| not … means … / or (excl.) | noo1 | noco | inoco | nukonoi | ki |
| not …, whether … | nou | nocu | inocu | nukunoi | ki |
| whether …, not … | nonuu2 | nocnuu | inocnuu | nuknuunoi | ki |
| if | anoi | canoi | icanoi | ka | kinoi |
| and not | enoi | cenoi | icenoi | ke | kinoi |
| means not / or (excl.) | onoi | conoi | iconoi | ko | kinoi |
| whether not | unoi3 | cunoi | icunoi | ku | kinoi |
| whether …, not | nuunoi | nucunoi | inucunoi | ku | kinoi |
| not both … and … | noanoi | nocanoi | inocanoi | kanoi | kinoi |
| neither … nor … | noenoi | nocenoi | inocenoi | ke | kinoi |
| not … means not … | noonoi4 | noconoi | inoconoi | konoi | kinoi |
| not …, whether not … | nounoi5 | nocunoi | inocunoi | kunoi | kinoi |
| whether not …, not … | nonuunoi6 | nonucunoi | inonucunoi | kanoi | kinoi |
| Note: | Any of the Logical Connectives can be suffixed with a combination of Tense Operators, Causal Operators, and Location Operators: for example: efa = ‘and-after’; enukou = ‘and-thus’; evu = ‘and-yonder’; efavu = ‘and-yonder-after’; etc. |
| 1,2,3,4,5,6 | The forms on these rows occur only briefly in speech,
being transformational products and immediately
replaceable by their equivalents as follows:
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