14.10. Multiple compound bridi

Giheks can be combined with bo in the same way as eks:

Example 14.60.

nelci

.djan.

gi'e

nelci

.martas.

gi'abo

nelci

.meris.

I like John and ( like Martha or like Mary ).

is equivalent in meaning to Example 14.39 and Example 14.40. Likewise, ke … ke'e grouping can be used after giheks:

Example 14.61.

mi	dzukla	le	zarci
I	walk-to	the	market

gi'e	dzukla	le	zdani
and	walk-to	the	house,

gi'a	ke	dzukla	le	ckule
or	(	walk-to	the	school

gi'e	dzukla	le	briju	[ke'e]
and	walk-to	the	office.	)

is the gihek version of Example 14.47. The same rule about using ke … ke'e bracketing only just after a connective applies to bridi-tails as to sumti, so the first two bridi-tails in Example 14.61 cannot be explicitly grouped; implicit left-grouping suffices to associate them.

Each of the pairs of bridi-tails joined by multiple giheks can have its own set of tail-terms:

Example 14.62.

	mi	dejni	lo	rupnu	la	.djan.
[If]	I	owe	some	currency-units	to-that-named	John,

.inaja	mi	dunda	le	cukta	la	.djan.
then	I	give	the	book	to-that-named	John

.ijabo	mi	lebna	le	cukta	la	.djan.
or	I	take	the	book	from-that-named	John.

is equivalent in meaning to:

Example 14.63.

	mi	dejni	lo	rupnu	nagi'a	dunda
[If]	I	owe	some	currency-units	then	(give

gi'abo	lebna	vau	le	cukta	vau	la	.djan.
or	take)		a	book		to/from-that-named	John.

The literal English translation in Example 14.63 is almost unintelligible, but the Lojban is perfectly grammatical. mi fills the x₁ place of all three selbri; lo rupnu is the x₂ of dejni , whereas le cukta is a tail-term shared between dunda and lebna ; la .djan. is a tail-term shared by dejni and by dunda gi'abo lebna. In this case, greater clarity is probably achieved by moving la .djan. to the beginning of the sentence, as in Example 14.53 :

Example 14.64.

fi	la	.djan.		fa	mi	dejni	lo	rupnu
To/from	that-named	John,	[if]		I	owe	some	currency-units

nagi'a		dunda	gi'abo	lebna	vau	le	cukta
then	[I]	give	or	take		the	book.

Finally, what about forethought logical connection of bridi-tails? There is no direct mechanism for the purpose. Instead, Lojban grammar allows a pair of forethought-connected sentences to function as a single bridi-tail, and of course the sentences need not have terms before their selbri. For example:

Example 14.65.

mi	ge	klama	le	zarci	gi	nelci	la	.djan.
I	both	go-to	the	market	and	like	that-named	John.

is equivalent in meaning to Example 14.50.

Of course, either of the connected sentences may contain giheks:

Example 14.66.

mi	ge	klama	le	zarci	gi'e	dzukla	le	zdani
I	both	(go	to-the	market	and	walk	to-the	house)

gi	nelci	la	.djan.
and	like	that-named	John.

The entire gek-connected sentence pair may be negated as a whole by prefixing na :

Example 14.67.

	mi	na	ge	klama	le	zarci	gi	dzukla	le	zdani
[False!]	I		both	go-to	the	market	and	walk-to	the	house.

Since a pair of sentences joined by geks is the equivalent of a bridi-tail, it may be followed by tail terms. The forethought equivalent of Example 14.54 is:

Example 14.68.

mi	ge	dunda	le	cukta
I	both	(give	the	book)

gi	lebna	lo	jdini	vau	do
and	(take	some	money	)	to/from-you.

Here is a pair of gek-connected observatives, a forethought equivalent of Example 14.57 :

Example 14.69.

ge	klama	le	zarci	gi	dzukla	le	briju
Both	a-goer	to-the	market	and	a-walker	to-the	office.

Finally, here is an example of gek-connected sentences with both shared and unshared terms before their selbri:

Example 14.70.

mi	gonai	le	zarci	cu	klama	gi	le	bisli	cu	dansu
I	either-but-not-both	to-the	office		go	or	on-the	ice		dance.

I either go to the office or dance on the ice (but not both).