Re: NAI

la .and. cusku di'e

> On what grounds is {nai} deemed a word rather than a suffix?
> It has an idiomatic semantic relationship with the word it
> attaches to, and it can attach to syntactically invisible words
> (UI), so that {gie oi nai} = {gie} rather than {gie nai}.
> These considerations lead me to conclude that {nai} is a
> suffix rather than a word. Slightly more tentatively, I
> conclude that there is no selmao NAI. If I am right, we discover
> a new kind of morphology in Lojban.

Parser input:	nai
Parser output:	(nai /FA'O/)

As shown above, "nai" is a valid stand-alone text.  Admittedly, this is
a marginal use of "nai", and most uses are indeed suffixal.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.