General Index

definition: Compound bridi
logical connection of: Compound bridi
more than one sumti in common: Compound bridi
multiple with "bo": Multiple compound bridi
multiple with "ke…ke'e": Multiple compound bridi
one sumti in common: Compound bridi
separate tail-terms for bridi-tails: Multiple compound bridi
separate tail-terms for forethought-connected bridi-tails: Multiple compound bridi

compound bridi with more than one sumti in common

with common sumti first: Compound bridi
with vau: Compound bridi

compound cmavo

compared with sequence of simple cmavo: cmavo
definition: cmavo
recognition of: cmavo

compound emotions: The space of emotions

compound letters

native language

representing as distinct letters: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

compound logical connectives

components: The six types of logical connectives
naming convention: The six types of logical connectives

compound of gismu

lujvo as: brivla

compound spatial tense

as direction with-or-without distance: Compound spatial tenses
beginning with distance only: Compound spatial tenses
effect of different ordering: Compound spatial tenses
explanation of: Compound spatial tenses
with direction and distance: Compound spatial tenses

compound subscript: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso, Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

compound temporal tense

beginning with distance only: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

compound tense

compared with multiple tenses in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
compared with tense in scope of sticky tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
definition: Compound spatial tenses
Lojban contrasted with English in order of specification: Compound spatial tenses

compound tense ordering

Lojban contrasted with English: Compound spatial tenses

computer interaction: No more to say: FAhO

concept abstraction: Minor abstraction types

concept abstractions

place structure: Minor abstraction types

concept abstractor: Minor abstraction types

concrete terms

use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla

condescension: Attitudinal modifiers

confusion

metalinguistic: Miscellaneous indicators

confusion about what was said: Miscellaneous indicators

conjunctions

cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo

connected tenses

negation of compared with negation in connective: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

connecting operands

with "bo" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
with "ke" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

connecting operators

with "bo" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
with "ke" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

connection

non-distributed: Non-logical connectives
simultaneously modal and logical: Mixed modal connection

connection of operands

grouping: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
precedence over operator: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

connection of operators

grouping: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

connective answers

non-logical: More about non-logical connectives

connective question answers

contrasted with other languages: Truth questions and connective questions

connective question cmavo

departure from regularity of: Truth questions and connective questions

connective questions

answering: Truth questions and connective questions
compared with other languages: Truth questions and connective questions
non-logical: More about non-logical connectives

connectives

as complete grammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
as ungrammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
table by constructs connected: Constructs and appropriate connectives

consonant

definition: Consonant clusters
effect on syllable count: Consonant clusters

consonant clusters

buffering of: Buffering of consonant clusters
contrasted with doubled consonants: Consonant clusters
contrasted with single consonants: Consonant clusters
definition of: Consonant clusters
more than three consonants in: Initial consonant pairs

consonant pairs

in brivla: brivla
initial: Initial consonant pairs
letter "y" within: brivla
restrictions on: Consonant clusters

consonant triples: Initial consonant pairs

restrictions on: Initial consonant pairs

consonant-final words

necessity for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses

consonants

contrasted with vowels: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

final: Consonant clusters

position of: Consonant clusters

pronunciation of

quick-tour version: Pronunciation

restrictions on: Consonant clusters

syllabic: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

voiced/unvoiced equivalents: Consonant clusters

voicing of: Consonant clusters

continents

gismu for: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

continues: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

continuitive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

continuous

of tense intervals: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

contradictory negation

using "naku" before selbri: Using naku outside a prenex

contradictory negation of modals

explanation of meaning: Modal negation

contributors to this book: Acknowledgements and credits

conversion

accessing tense of bridi with "jai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
definition: Conversion of simple selbri, Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
effect of multiple on a selbri: Conversion: SE
effect on BAI: Modal tags: BAI
extending scope of: Conversion: SE
modal: Modal conversion: JAI
of BAI cmavo: Modal tags: BAI
of operator places: Miscellany
scope of: Conversion: SE
swapping non-first places: Conversion: SE
swapping with modal place: Modal conversion: JAI

conversion and tanru: Conversion of simple selbri

conversion into sumti from mekso: Simple infix expressions and equations

conversion of mekso into sumti: Simple infix expressions and equations

conversion of operand into operator: Miscellany

conversion of operator into operand: Miscellany

conversion of operator into selbri: Other uses of mekso

conversion of selbri into operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso

conversion of selbri into operator: Using Lojban resources within mekso

conversion of sentence with quantified variables

technique: Using naku outside a prenex

conversion of sumti into operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso

conversion of sumti into selbri: selbri based on sumti: me

conversion with "se"

effect of "naku" negation boundary on conversion: Using naku outside a prenex

conversion with ke: Conversion of simple selbri

converted selbri

as different selbri from unconverted: Conversion: SE
as resetting standard order: Conversion: SE
compared with selbri with FA in meaning: Conversion: SE
contrasted with other similar selbri: Conversion: SE
contrasted with selbri with FA in structure: Conversion: SE
definition: Conversion: SE
forming with SE: Conversion: SE
in descriptions: Conversion: SE
place structure of: Conversion: SE
retention of basic meaning in: Conversion: SE
to access non-first place in description: Conversion: SE

creative understanding: Why have lujvo?

credits for pictures: Acknowledgements and credits

credits for this book: Acknowledgements and credits

cross product

with tenses: Sub-events

cross-dependency: Dependent places

cross-product

contrasted with "and": More about non-logical connectives
of sets: More about non-logical connectives

cultural knowledge

example: Evidentials

cultural words

rafsi fu'ivla proposal for: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

culturally dependent lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators

cup's friend: Relative phrases

curious: Predication/sentence abstraction, Predication/sentence abstraction

Cy-form cmavo

rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses

cycles: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

Cyrillic alphabet

language shift word for: Alien alphabets
proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for the Cyrillic alphabet

D

da'a

default number for: Indefinite numbers

decimal point

as numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
effect of different notations: Signs and numerical punctuation
in bases other than 10: Non-decimal and compound bases

deduction

example: Evidentials

default operator precedence

contrasted with mekso goal: Simple infix expressions and equations

deference: Attitudinal modifiers

definable pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

sequences of lerfu words as: Pro-sumti summary

definite numbers

combined with indefinite: Indefinite numbers

demonstrated potential

expressing: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

demonstrative pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

DeMorgan's Law

and bridi-tail logical connection: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
and distributing a negation: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
and internal "naku" negations: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
and logically connected sentences: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
and moving a logical connective relative to "naku": Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
sample applications: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

dereferencing a pointer

with "la'e": sumti qualifiers

derivational morphology

definition: Introductory

derogatory terms: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

descriptions

and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction
as based on first place of following selbri: Conversion: SE
as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
components of: The three basic description types
importance of selbri first place in: The three basic description types
non-specific: The three basic description types
quick-tour version: Description sumti
specific: The three basic description types
types of: The three basic description types, The three basic description types
use of SE in: Conversion: SE

descriptions with lo

teddy bear contrasted with real bear: The three basic description types

descriptor

as part of description: The three basic description types

descriptors

implicit quantifiers for: Quantified descriptions
omission of: Indefinite descriptions
purpose of: The three basic description types

destination: Conversion: SE

Devanagari: Alien alphabets

diacritic marks

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters

diacritical marks

as lerfu: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
considered as forming distinct letters: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
order of specification within "tei…foi": Accent marks and compound lerfu words
problem of position: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
problem with multiple on one lerfu: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
specifying with "tei…foi": Accent marks and compound lerfu words

dictionary

superior authority of: Disclaimers

die after living: Tenses as sumtcita

digit questions: Number questions

digit string

definition of: Other uses of mekso

digits

cmavo for: Lojban numbers
list of decimal: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
list of hexadecimal: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
names from: Miscellany
rafsi for: Miscellany
rationale for having 16: Non-decimal and compound bases

digits beyond 9

word pattern: Non-decimal and compound bases

dimension

meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

dimensionality

of walking: Dimensionality: VIhA
order with size in spatial tense intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA

dimensionality of interval

as subjective: Dimensionality: VIhA

dimensioned numbers

expressing: Using Lojban resources within mekso

diphthongs

classification of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

contrasted with vowel pairs: Vowel pairs

definition of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

English analogues of: English analogues for Lojban diphthongs

in fu'ivla: fu'ivla

IPA for: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

list of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

pronunciation of

quick-tour version: Pronunciation

specific to cmevla: cmevla

specific to names: cmevla

direct address: Vocative scales

direction

following interval in tense construct: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
interaction with movement specification in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI
order of relative to distance in spatial tenses: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
reference frame for: Movement in space: MOhI
specification with FAhA: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

directions

multiple with movement: Movement in space: MOhI

disambiguated instance: The meaning of lujvo

disclaimers: Disclaimers

discourse

commentary on: Discursives
expressing utterance relation to: Discursives
gesture markers: Discursives
tone of voice markers: Discursives

discrete

of tense intervals: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

discursive indicator: Paragraphs: NIhO

discursives

"su'a" as: Evidentials
as metalinguistic claims: Discursives
contrasted with attitudinals: Discursives
definition: Discursives
discourse commentary: Discursives
discourse management: Discursives
embedded: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
expressing how things are said: Discursives
knowledge: Discursives
placement in sentence: Discursives
quick-tour version: Indicators
word-level: Discursives

discursives for consecutive discourse: Discursives

contrasted: Discursives

discursives for managing discourse flow: Discursives

discuss in language: More about non-logical connectives

distance

order of relative to direction in spatial tenses: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
specification with VA: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

distributing a negation: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

distribution of quantified sumti: Grouping of quantifiers

ditto

example: Discursives

diversified species: Notes on gismu place structures

DNA: Acronyms

doctor and then rich: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

dog bites: Dropping the prenex

dog breathes: Restricted claims: da poi

dog house

example: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

dog or cat: Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions

doghouse: The meaning of lujvo

example: lujvo-making examples

dogs bite: Grouping of quantifiers

Dong: Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.

double negation

and "naku": Using naku outside a prenex

double negatives

effect of interactions between quantifiers and negation on: Negation boundaries

double underscore notation convention for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi

doubled consonants

contrasted with consonant clusters: Consonant clusters
contrasted with single consonants: Consonant clusters

dream

example: Evidentials

du

as an exception within GOhA selma'o: Other kinds of simple selbri

ducks swim: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

E

E

notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels

Earl

example: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

eat in airplane: Movement in space: MOhI

eat themselves: Indefinite numbers

editorial commentary: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

editorial insertion: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

of text already containing "sa'a": Miscellaneous indicators
with "sa'a": Miscellaneous indicators

Einsteinian

space-time intervals with 4 dimensions: Dimensionality: VIhA

ek

definition: The six types of logical connectives

eks

connecting operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
in sumti forethought logical connection: sumti connection

elementary schools: Dependent places

Elgin

Suzette Haden and evidentials: Evidentials

elided tense

meaning of: Introductory

elimination process: Ordering lujvo places.

ellipsis

quick-tour version: Some simple Lojban bridi

elliptical pro-bridi: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

elliptical pro-sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

elliptical sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

elliptical value

contrasted with typical value for sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

embarrassment

example: Emotional categories

embedded bridi tenses

effect of main bridi tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

embedded discursive: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

emotional categories: Emotional categories

emotional indicators

noticeable effects of: Tentative conclusion

emotional scale: Attitudes as scales

emotions

compound: The space of emotions
cultural bias of expression: Tentative conclusion
insights: The space of emotions
recording using indicators: Tentative conclusion
research using indicators: Tentative conclusion
when expressed: The space of emotions

empathy: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours

emphasis

changing by using non-standard form of bridi: Standard bridi form: cu

end of file: No more to say: FAhO

endpoints

inclusion in interval: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

engineering: Some simple Lojban bridi

English "we"

contrasted with Lojban pro-sumti for "we": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

English prepositions

contrasted with modal tags in preciseness: Modal tags: BAI

Englishman in Africa: Individuals and masses

enough currency: Indefinite numbers

enough-th: Special mekso selbri

equivalents to brivla: Other kinds of simple selbri

erasure

multiple word: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
names: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
of quotations with "zo": Erasure: SI, SA, SU
quotes: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
total: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
word: Erasure: SI, SA, SU

error marking

metalinguistic: Miscellaneous indicators

ete: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

event abstractions: Event abstraction

types: Types of event abstractions

event contours

achievative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
as characteristic portions of events: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
as timeless in perspective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
cessative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
completitive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
continuitive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
contrasted with tense direction in implication of extent: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
definition: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
division of the event into: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
implications on scope of event: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
inchoative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
initiative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
interruption: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
order with respect to TAhE and ROI: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
pausative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
points associated with: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
resumption: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
resumptive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
retrospective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
strings of: Sub-events
superfective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
syntax of: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
temporal contrasted with spatial: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

event contours as sumtcita

contrasted with direction and distance: Tenses as sumtcita

event types

described: Types of event abstractions

event-relative viewpoint

contrasted with speaker-relative viewpoint: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

events

considered as a process: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
duration: Event abstraction
place structure: Event abstraction

everybody loves something: Negation boundaries

everyone

contrasted with anyone in assumption of existence: The problem of “any”

everyone bitten by dog: Dropping the prenex

everything

expressing with "ro da": Universal claims

everything breathes: Restricted claims: da poi

everything loves everything: Universal claims

everything sees me: Universal claims

everything sees something: Universal claims

evidentials

"ba'a" scale: Evidentials
"ja'o" contrasted with "su'a": Evidentials
"ka'u" contrasted with "se'o": Evidentials
"se'o" contrasted with "ka'u": Evidentials
"su'a" contrasted with "ja'o": Evidentials
definition: Evidentials
grammar: Evidentials
in English: Evidentials
indisputable bridi: Evidentials
inspiration for: Evidentials
placement in bridi: Evidentials
quick-tour version: Indicators
rhetorical flavor: Evidentials
scales: Evidentials

exact number

expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers

example of examples: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

examples

structure of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

examples in this book: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

except from 10 to 12: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

existential

mixed claim with universal: Universal claims

existential claims

definition: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
restricting: Restricted claims: da poi

existential variable

in abstraction contrasted with in main bridi: The problem of “any”
in main bridi contrasted with in abstraction: The problem of “any”

experience abstraction: Minor abstraction types

experience abstractions

place structure: Minor abstraction types

experience abstractor: Minor abstraction types

experienced: Evidentials

experimental cmavo

definition: cmavo
forms for: cmavo

exponential notation

with "gei": Infix operators revisited
with base other than 10: Infix operators revisited

exporting negation to prenex

"naku" contrasted with internal bridi negation: Using naku outside a prenex
internal bridi negation contrasted with "naku": Using naku outside a prenex

external bridi negation

compared to internal bridi negation: Negation boundaries
definition: Negation boundaries

extrinsic possession

definition: Relative phrases

F

F.8 base 16: Non-decimal and compound bases

FA tags and linked sumti: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

face

specifying for letters: Alien alphabets

false statement

implications of: Logical connection of bridi

far away from the nearby park: Tenses as sumtcita

fast talker: tanru

fast-talker shoe: tanru

father: The concept of the bridi

father mother: lujvo

fewsome: Special mekso selbri

Fido: Dropping the prenex

field rations: lujvo

figurative lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators

place structure: Miscellaneous indicators

figurative speech: Miscellaneous indicators

final syllable stress

rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses

finish

contrasted with stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

finished: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

first rat: Special mekso selbri

firstly: Other uses of mekso

fish eat: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU

fish on right: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

flashbacks in story time: Story time

fleas: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

flexible vocabulary: brivla

floating point numbers

expressing: Infix operators revisited

flow of discourse

managing with discursives: Discursives

folk quantifiers

expressing: Using Lojban resources within mekso

font: Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets

specifying for letters: Alien alphabets

food

use of fu'ivla for specific: fu'ivla

foreman of a jury

example: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

forethought bridi connection

as grammatically one sentence: Forethought bridi connection

forethought bridi connectives

contrasted with afterthought bridi connectives: Forethought bridi connection

forethought bridi-tail connection

special rule for tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

forethought connection

contrasted with afterthought for grammatical utterances: Truth questions and connective questions
definition: Other modal connections
in abstractions: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
in tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
observatives: Multiple compound bridi
of operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
of operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

forethought connections

modal compared with tense in semantics: Tenses versus modals

forethought connectives

as ungrammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
contrasted with afterthought connectives: Forethought bridi connection
with tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

forethought connectives and bo: Grouping of afterthought connectives

forethought intervals

GAhO position: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

forethought logical connectives

within tanru: Logical connection within tanru

forethought logical connectives in tanru

effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru

forethought modal sentence connection: Other modal connections

relation to modal of first bridi in: Other modal connections
relation to modal of second bridi in: Other modal connections

forethought modal sentence connection for causals

order of cause and effect: Other modal connections

forethought tanru connection: Logical connection within tanru

forethought tense connection

contrasted with afterthought in likeness to modal connection: Tenses versus modals

forethought tense connection of bridi-tails

order of: Tense relations between sentences

forethought tense connection of sentences

order of: Tense relations between sentences

forethought tense connection of sumti

order of: Tense relations between sentences

forethought termsets

logical connection of: Termset logical connection

formal requirement: Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales

former market: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

former state: Comparatives and superlatives

formulae

expressing based on pure dimensions: Using Lojban resources within mekso

four "e"s: References to lerfu

Four score and seven: Four score and seven: a mekso problem

fourteen "e"s: What's a letteral, anyway?

fraction

meaning with elided numerator and denominator: Special numbers

fractions

expressing with numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
numerator default: Signs and numerical punctuation

fragmentary text: Miscellaneous indicators

Frank is a fool: Predication/sentence abstraction, Predication/sentence abstraction

free modifiers

effects on elidability of terminators: Subscripts

friend's cup: Relative phrases

from one to two o'clock: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

fu'ivla

algorithm for constructing: fu'ivla

as a subtype of brivla: brivla

as Stage 3 borrowings: fu'ivla

as Stage 4 borrowings: fu'ivla

categorized contrasted with uncategorized in ease of construction: fu'ivla

considerations for choosing basis word: fu'ivla

consonant clusters in: fu'ivla

construction of: fu'ivla

definition

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

diphthongs in: fu'ivla

disambiguation of: fu'ivla

form for rafsi fu'ivla proposal: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

form of: fu'ivla

initial consonant cluster in: fu'ivla

method of including in lujvo: rafsi

quick-tour version: Examples of brivla

rules for formation of: fu'ivla

stress in: fu'ivla

uniqueness of meaning in: fu'ivla

use of: fu'ivla

with invalid diphthongs: fu'ivla

fu'ivla categorizer: fu'ivla

for distinguishing fu'ivla form: fu'ivla
for distinguishing specialized meanings: fu'ivla
selection consideration for: fu'ivla

fully reduced lujvo

definition: rafsi

function f of x: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

function name

lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

future event

possible extension into present: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

futureward

as a spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA

fuzzy logic and truth-value abstraction: Truth-value abstraction: jei

G

gadri

definition: The five kinds of simple sumti

gek

definition: Forethought bridi connection

gek bridi connectives

contrasted with ijeks: Forethought bridi connection

geks

connecting operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
in forethought sumti connection: sumti connection
syntax of: Forethought bridi connection

General American: IPA for English speakers

general sumti

contrasted with operands: Simple infix expressions and equations

general terms: Notes on gismu place structures

German rich man: Grouping of afterthought connectives

Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven: a mekso problem

gihek

definition: Compound bridi

giheks

syntax of: Compound bridi

gik

as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
definition: Forethought bridi connection

giks

syntax of: Forethought bridi connection

girls' school

little: Three-part tanru grouping with bo, Three-part tanru grouping with bo, Three-part tanru grouping with bo

gismu

algorithm for: lujvo-making examples

and cmavo

major: gismu

as a subtype of brivla: brivla

as partitioning semantic space: gismu

basic rafsi for: rafsi

coined: The gismu creation algorithm

conflicts between: gismu

creation

and transcription blunders: The gismu creation algorithm
considerations for selection after scoring: The gismu creation algorithm
proscribed gismu pairs: The gismu creation algorithm
scoring rules: The gismu creation algorithm

cultural: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

definition: gismu

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

ethnic: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

examples of: gismu

exceptions to gismu creation by algorithm: The gismu creation algorithm

for countries: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

for languages: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

for Lojban source languages: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

geographical: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

length of: gismu

level of uniqueness of rafsi relating to: rafsi

Lojban-specific: The gismu creation algorithm

place order

rationale: Notes on gismu place structures

place structures: Notes on gismu place structures

rationale: Notes on gismu place structures

quick-tour version: Examples of brivla

rationale for choice of: gismu

religious: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

rules for: gismu

scientific-mathematical: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

selection of: gismu

source of: gismu

source-language weights for: The gismu creation algorithm

special: gismu

too-similar: The gismu creation algorithm

give: The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi

give or receive: Tagging places: FA

giving the horse: Property abstractions

glottal stop

as pause in Lojban: The special Lojban characters

glue in lujvo

n-hyphen as: lujvo
r-hyphen as: lujvo
y-hyphen as: lujvo

go: Standard bridi form: cu

go to Boston from Atlanta: Standard bridi form: cu

go to market: Introductory

go to Paris or Rome: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

go to the store: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

go-er: Conversion: SE

goal of this book: What is this book?

goer table: Simple tanru

goer-house

example: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

good house: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

grammatical categories

use of upper case for: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

grammatical terms

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

grasp water: Other modal connections

great soldier: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo, Ordering lujvo places.

Greek alphabet

language shift word for: Alien alphabets

Greek aorist tense

compared with Lojban tense: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

Greek-Americans own restaurants: Descriptors for typical objects

grouping

of connection in abstractions: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
of connection in tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

grouping parentheses: Complex tanru with ke and ke'e

guhek

definition: Logical connection within tanru

guheks

connecting operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
syntax of: Logical connection within tanru

guheks for tanru connection

rationale: Logical connection within tanru

H

had earlier: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

hands in pockets: Relative phrases

handwriting: Alien alphabets

hanzi: What about Chinese characters?

happiness: Abstraction focus pro-sumti: ce'u

happy face

example: The universal bu

has a heart: Property abstractions

have never: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

having

of properties: Property abstractions

healthy: Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions

hearsay

example: Evidentials

heartburn

example: Miscellaneous indicators

Hebrew alphabet

language shift word for: Alien alphabets

Helvetica font: Alien alphabets

hepatitis: rafsi, rafsi

hereafter known as

example: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

hesitation sound: Hesitation: Y

hexadecimal system

specifying numbers in (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases

hierarchy of priorities for selecting lujvo form: The lujvo scoring algorithm

hiragana: Alien alphabets

contrasted with kanji: What about Chinese characters?

hit cousin: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives

hit nose: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives

hits: The concept of the bridi

Hollywood: Descriptors for typical objects

hospitality

example: Vocative scales

hours

example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases

huh?: Miscellaneous indicators

hundred

expressing as number: Lojban numbers

husband and wife: Evidentials

hyphen letter

definition: rafsi

hyphens

use of: rafsi

hyphens in lujvo

proscribed where not required: The lujvo-making algorithm

hypothetical world: Propositional attitude indicators

contrasted with real world

example: Discursives

hypothetical world point of view: Discursives

I

IBM: Acronyms

ICAO Phonetic Alphabet

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

idea abstraction: Minor abstraction types

idea abstractions

place structure: Minor abstraction types

identity

expressing with "po'u": Relative phrases

identity predicate: The identity predicate: du

if

English usage contrasted with Lojban logical connective: Logical connection of bridi
expressing hypothetical world: Discursives
expressing real world: Discursives
meaning in logical connections: Logical connection of bridi

if coffee

bring tea: Truth questions and connective questions

if … then

compared with English "only if": Logical connection of bridi
logical connectives contrasted with other translations: Forethought bridi connection

ijek

definition: The six types of logical connectives

ijek bridi connectives

contrasted with geks: Forethought bridi connection

ijek logical connectives

connecting bridi: Logical connection of bridi

ijeks

syntax of: Logical connection of bridi

ijoik

as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
definition: More about non-logical connectives

imaginary journey

and spatial tense: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
ending point: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
origin in tense forethought bridi-tail connection: Tense relations between sentences
origin in tense forethought sentence connection: Tense relations between sentences
origin in tense forethought sumti connection: Tense relations between sentences
origin of in tense-connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences
stages of in compound tenses: Compound spatial tenses
starting at a different point: Tenses as sumtcita
starting point: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA, Tenses as sumtcita
with interval direction: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

imaginary journey origin

with sticky tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

imperatives

and truth: Truth questions and connective questions
attitude: Attitudinal modifiers
English contrasted with Lojban in presence of subject of command: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
quick-tour version: Vocatives and commands
with "ko": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

implausible: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

implicit quantifier

for quotations: Quantified sumti

on quotations

discussion of: Quantified sumti

importance of point

scale with "ra'u": Discursives

in the aftermath: Tenses as sumtcita

inalienable

distinguishing from alienable: Relative phrases

inalienable possession

definition: Relative phrases
expressing with "po'e": Relative phrases

inchoative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

incidental association

expressing with "ne": Relative phrases

incidental identification

expressing with "no'u": Relative phrases

incidental relative clause

as a parenthetical device: Incidental relative clauses
definition: Incidental relative clauses

inclusion

property of sets: Masses and sets

indefinite description

as needing explicit outer quantifier: Indefinite descriptions
as prohibiting explicit inner quantifier: Indefinite descriptions
compared with restricted variable: Variables with generalized quantifiers
definition: Indefinite descriptions, Variables with generalized quantifiers

indefinite numbers

combined with definite: Indefinite numbers

indefinite portions

subjective: Indefinite numbers

indefinite pro-bridi: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

indefinite pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

indefinite sumti

as implicit quantification: Using naku outside a prenex
compared to sumti with "lo": Grouping of quantifiers
meaning when multiple in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers
multiple in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers

indefinite values

subjective: Indefinite numbers

indicator scope: Paragraphs: NIhO

indicators: What are attitudinal indicators?

evolutionary development of: Tentative conclusion
grammar for compounding: Compound indicators
meaning when compounded: Compound indicators
placement of: Propositional attitude indicators
quick-tour version: Indicators
ramifications: Tentative conclusion
rationale for selection: Tentative conclusion
scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO
types of: What are attitudinal indicators?

indirect question: Miscellaneous indicators

indirect question involving sumti: Indirect questions

indirect questions

"ma kau" contrasted with "la .djan. kau": Indirect questions

indirect questions without "kau": Indirect questions

indisputable bridi: Evidentials

individual: Special mekso selbri

individual descriptors

different implicit outer quantifiers among: Quantified descriptions

individual objects

multiple: Individuals and masses

individuals

expressing relation with mass formed: Special mekso selbri
expressing relation with set formed: Special mekso selbri

individuals into mass

by non-logical connection: Non-logical connectives

individuals into set

by non-logical connection: Non-logical connectives

individuals of set

expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri

indivisible: Types of event abstractions

induction

example: Evidentials

inexact numbers with bounds: Approximation and inexact numbers

inexact portions with bounds: Approximation and inexact numbers

infant ducks: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

inferior: Attitudinal modifiers

infinity: Special numbers

infix notation mixed with Polish: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

example: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

inflammable: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

initial consonant pairs

list of: Initial consonant pairs

initiative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

innate capabilities

expressing implicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

innate capability

expressing explicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

innate properties

extension of from mass to individuals: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
extension to individuals not actually capable: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

inner product: Vectors and matrices

inner quantifier

contrasted with outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions
definition: Quantified descriptions
effect of on meaning: Quantified descriptions
explicit: Quantified descriptions
implicit on descriptors: Quantified descriptions
in indefinite description: Indefinite descriptions

inner sumti

referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses

integral

architectural concept

example: fu'ivla

mathematical concept

example: fu'ivla

interactions between quantifiers and negation

effect: Negation boundaries

interjections

quick-tour version: Indicators

intermediate abstraction: Lojban sumti raising

intermittently: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

internal bridi negation

compared to external bridi negation: Negation boundaries
definition: Negation boundaries

internal naku negations

and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

internal world: Propositional attitude indicators

International Phonetic Alphabet (see also IPA): Basic phonetics

intersect: Minor abstraction types

intersection

of sets: More about non-logical connectives

intersection of sets

compared with English "and": More about non-logical connectives

interval

closed: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
followed by direction in tense construct: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
inclusion of endpoints: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
open: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
relation to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
relative order with direction and distance in tense: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
specifying relation to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

interval continuousness

meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

interval direction

specifying: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

interval properties

meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
strings of: Sub-events

interval size

as context-dependent: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
unspecified: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
vague: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

interval spread

expressing English "intermittently": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
mutually contrasted: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
negation with "nai": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
with unspecified interval: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

intervals

effect of "nai" on: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
expressed as center and distance: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
expressed as endpoints: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
expressing by endpoints with "bi'o": Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
forethought: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
spread of actions over: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

intrinsic possession

definition: Relative phrases
expressing by using place in some selbri: Relative phrases
expressing with "po'e": Relative phrases

introduce oneself: Vocative scales

invalid diphthongs

in fu'ivla: fu'ivla

invalid speech

marking as error with "na'i": Miscellaneous indicators

inversion of quantifiers

definition: Negation boundaries
in moving negation boundary: Negation boundaries

inversion of quantifiers on passing negation boundary

rationale for: Negation boundaries

invertebrate: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

inverted tanru

effect on sumti after the selbri: Inversion of tanru: co
effect on sumti before the selbri: Inversion of tanru: co

inverting quantifiers

with movement relative to "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
with movement relative to fixed negation: Using naku outside a prenex

IPA: Basic phonetics

IPA pronunciation

description: IPA for English speakers

irony

example: Discursives
expressing: Discursives

irrational number: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

irrelevant

specifying of sumti place: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

isomorphism

audio-visual: Orthography

IT

as notation convention in relative clause chapter: What are you pointing at?

italic

example: Alien alphabets

iy diphthong

in cmevla: cmevla

J

j-sound in English

representation in Lojban: Basic phonetics

James: Consonant clusters

Jane: cmevla

Japanese hiragana: Alien alphabets

Japanese katakana: Alien alphabets

jargon

use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla

jek

definition: The six types of logical connectives

jeks

connecting abstractors: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
connecting operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
syntax of: Logical connection within tanru

Jesus: Minor abstraction types, Minor abstraction types

Jim: cmevla

John and Sam: The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi

John Brown: cmevla, cmevla

John is coming: What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?

John Paul Jones: Lojban names

John says that George goes to market: Tenses in subordinate bridi

joigik

as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
definition: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

joigiks

connection types: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
syntax of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

joik

as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
definition: Non-logical connectives

joiks

effect of "nai" on: More about non-logical connectives
grouping: More about non-logical connectives
syntax of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
use of "se" in: Non-logical connectives

jokes: What is this book?

Jupiter life: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions

juror number 5: Possessive sumti

K

kanji

contrasted with alphabets and syllabaries: What about Chinese characters?
representing based on romaji spelling: What about Chinese characters?
representing based on strokes: What about Chinese characters?

katakana: Alien alphabets

Kate: cmevla

Katrina: cmevla

kept on too long: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

killing Jim: Types of event abstractions, Types of event abstractions

kissing Jane: Event abstraction

know: Predication/sentence abstraction

know who: Indirect questions

contrasted with know that: Indirect questions

knowledge discursives: Discursives

compared with propositional attitudes: Discursives

Korean: fu'ivla, fu'ivla

Kzinti

communication with: Tentative conclusion

L

l-hyphen

use of: fu'ivla

Láadan evidentials: Evidentials

Lady: cmevla

lambda calculus

operator and operand distinction in: Miscellany

language shift

based on name + "bu": Alien alphabets
choice of Lojban-lerfu-word counterpart: Alien alphabets
compound: Alien alphabets
effect on following words: Alien alphabets
formation of shift alphabet name: Alien alphabets
interaction with "bu": Alien alphabets
rationale for: Alien alphabets
standardization of: Alien alphabets

large meal: Attitudinal modifiers

large-base decimal fraction

expressing: Non-decimal and compound bases

latent component: Anomalous lujvo

Latin

alphabet of Lojban: What's a letteral, anyway?

Latin alphabet: Orthography

language shift word for: Alien alphabets

learning Lojban

magnitude of task: gismu

left-grouping rule

definition of: Three-part tanru grouping with bo

legal jargon

example: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

legal system: Truth-value abstraction: jei

lemon tree: Simple tanru

Length × Width × Depth = Volume: Using Lojban resources within mekso

Lepidoptera: tanru

lerfu

as assignable pro-sumti: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
contrasted with lerfu word: What's a letteral, anyway?
definition: What's a letteral, anyway?
reference to: References to lerfu
referring to with "me'o": References to lerfu

lerfu as pro-sumti

contrasted with ko'a-series in explicit assignment of: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
explicit assignment of antecedent: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
implicit assignment of antecedent: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

lerfu juxtaposition interpretation

contrasted with mathematical interpretation: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

lerfu shift scope

exception for mathematical texts: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

lerfu string

as function name: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

as mathematical variable: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

as pro-sumti: lerfu words as pro-sumti

assumption of reference: lerfu words as pro-sumti

as pro-sumti assigned by "goi": lerfu words as pro-sumti

as quantifier: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

as selbri: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

as subscript: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

as utterance ordinal: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

definition: lerfu words as pro-sumti

interpretation

contrasted with mathematical interpretation: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

lerfu strings

as acronyms using "me": Acronyms

as pro-sumti

for multiple sumti separated by boi: lerfu words as pro-sumti

as quantifiers

avoiding interaction with sumti quantified: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

in mathematical expressions: Simple infix expressions and equations

interpretation of contrasted with normal mathematical interpretation: Simple infix expressions and equations

uses in mathematics: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

with numerical selbri: Special mekso selbri

lerfu word

contrasted with lerfu: What's a letteral, anyway?
for "'": A to Z in Lojban, plus one

lerfu word cmavo

list of auxiliary: List of all auxiliary lerfu-word cmavo

lerfu word set extension

with bu: The universal bu

lerfu words

as a basis for acronym names: Acronyms

composed of compound cmavo: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

composed of single cmavo: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

consonant words contrasted with vowel words: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

effect of systematic formulation: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

for consonants: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

for vowels: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

formation rules: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

forming new for non-Lojban letters using "bu": Accent marks and compound lerfu words

list of proposed

notation convention: Proposed lerfu words – introduction

Lojban coverage requirement: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

proposed for accent marks: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters

proposed for Cyrillic alphabet: Proposed lerfu words for the Cyrillic alphabet

proposed for diacritic marks: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters

proposed for multiple letters: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters

proposed for noisy environments: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

proposed for radio communication: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

table of Lojban: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

using computer encoding schemes with "se'e": Computerized character codes

vowel words contrasted with consonant words: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

lerfu words ending with "y"

pause after

rationale: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

lerfu words for vowels

pause requirement before: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

lerfu words with numeric digits

grammar considerations: What about Chinese characters?

lervla

contrasted with lerfu: What's a letteral, anyway?

less

English word "less"

expressing with relative phrases: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
importance of relative phrase to: Modal relative phrases; Comparison

less than: Approximation and inexact numbers

contrasted with more than

at least, at most: Approximation and inexact numbers

less than two: Approximation and inexact numbers

letter

alphabet: What's a letteral, anyway?
contrasted with word for the letter: What's a letteral, anyway?

letter encoding schemes

application to lerfu words: Computerized character codes

letteral

definition: What's a letteral, anyway?

letters

non-Lojban

representation of diacritical marks on: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
representation with consonant-word + bu: Alien alphabets
representation with consonant-word + bu, drawback: Alien alphabets
representation with language-shift: Alien alphabets
representation with names: Alien alphabets

sound contrasted with symbol for spelling: Alien alphabets

symbol contrasted with sound for spelling: Alien alphabets

likes more than: Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison

lined up: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

linguistic behavior: Predication/sentence abstraction

linguistic drift: What is this book?

linguistic drift in Lojban

possible source of: Considerations for making lujvo

linked arguments: Questions and answers

linked sumti

definition: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
in tanru: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

linked sumti and FA tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

linked sumti and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

Linnaean names

rules for: cmevla

lion in Africa: Descriptors for typical objects

lions in Africa: Individuals and masses

list: Non-logical connectives

as a physical object: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with sequence: Non-logical connectives

list of things to do: More about non-logical connectives

listen attentively: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

lists

use of "tu'e"/"tu'u" in: More about non-logical connectives

literally: Miscellaneous indicators

living things: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

Livingston: Evidentials

LLG: Acknowledgements and credits

logic

and attitudinals: What's wrong with this picture?
limits of: What's wrong with this picture?
resolving ambiguities of "nobody": What's wrong with this picture?

logic and Lojban

more aspects: Conclusion

logical connection

effect on elidability of "lo'o": Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

grouping strategies for complex cases contrasted: Grouping of afterthought connectives

in abstractions

inner bridi contrasted with outer bridi: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions

in mathematical expressions: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

in tanru

contrasted with unconnected version: Logical connection within tanru
expandability of: Logical connection within tanru
grouping with bo: Logical connection within tanru
grouping with ke: Logical connection within tanru

inside abstractions

contrasted with outside: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions

interaction with tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

negation in connecting more than 2 sentences: More than two propositions

of bridi-tail as opposed to tanru: Logical connection within tanru

of bridi-tails

forethought: Multiple compound bridi
restriction on ke: Multiple compound bridi

of forethought termsets: Termset logical connection

of modals: Logical and non-logical connection of modals

of more than 2 sentences

all or none: More than two propositions
forethought: More than two propositions
things to avoid: More than two propositions

of observatives

relation of first places: Compound bridi

of selbri: Compound bridi

of sumti

grouping with parentheses: Grouping of afterthought connectives
restriction on ke: Grouping of afterthought connectives

of tanru

caveat: Logical connection within tanru

of tanru as opposed to bridi-tail: Logical connection within tanru

termsets: Termset logical connection

transformation between forms: sumti connection

with "bo"

precedence: Grouping of afterthought connectives

logical connection of abstractors: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions

logical connection of more than 2 sentences

mixed "and" and "or": More than two propositions

logical connectives: Logical connection and truth tables

associative: More than two propositions

bridi-tail connection: Compound bridi

cmavo

format for each selma'o: The six types of logical connectives

effect on elidability of "ge'u" from preceding relative phrase: Relative phrases

equivalence relation on 3 sentences: More than two propositions

grouping with "bo": Grouping of afterthought connectives

in tanru: Logical connection within tanru

more than 2 sentences: More than two propositions

negated first sentence as a potential problem for understanding: Forethought bridi connection

non-associative: More than two propositions

observative sentence connection: Compound bridi

pairing from left: More than two propositions

rationale for multiple sets in grammar: The six types of logical connectives

recipes

simplified for logic chapter discussion: bridi negation and logical connectives

relation to truth functions: The four basic vowels

relative precedence with "me'u": selbri based on sumti: me

right-grouping with bo: Grouping of afterthought connectives

selma'o

enumerated: The six types of logical connectives

syntax rules summary: Rules for making logical and non-logical connectives

table by truth function value: Truth functions and corresponding logical connectives

tensed: Tensed logical connectives

logical connectives and bridi negation: bridi negation and logical connectives

logical connectives and negation

caveat for logic chapter discussions: bridi negation and logical connectives

logical connectives in tanru: Logical connection within tanru

ambiguity of: Logical connection within tanru
effect on formal logical manipulations: Logical connection within tanru
effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru
usefulness of: Logical connection within tanru

logical connectives within negation

effects of expansion on: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

logical language

truth functions: Logical connection and truth tables

Logical Language Group

example: lujvo-making examples
relation to Lojban: What is Lojban?

logical variables

creating more by subscripting: A few notes on variables

effect of global substitution: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

effect of order in prenex: Universal claims

effect of using multiple different: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

explicitly placing in outer prenex: The problem of “any”

for selbri: selbri variables

implicit placement in smallest enclosing bridi prenex: The problem of “any”

notation convention: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

when not in main bridi: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

with "poi"

in multiple appearances: Dropping the prenex

with "ro"

in multiple appearances: Dropping the prenex

with multiple appearances in bridi: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

logically connected sentences

and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

logically connected tenses

definition: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
expansion to sentences: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
with JA: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

Loglan: Informal bibliography

logograms

words for: The universal bu

Lojban

features of: What is Lojban?
history of: What is Lojban?
stability of: What is this book?

Lojban alphabet: Orthography

Lojban letters

IPA for pronouncing: Basic phonetics
list with IPA pronunciation: Basic phonetics

Lojbanistan: What is this book?

long ago and far away: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

long rafsi

definition: rafsi

long rafsi form

compared with short form in effect on lujvo meaning: lujvo

long-sword: lujvo with more than two parts.

loose association

expressing with "pe": Relative phrases

Lord: cmevla

love more: Property abstractions

lower case letters

use in Lojban: Upper and lower cases

lower-case

lerfu word for: Upper and lower cases

lower-case letters

English usage contrasted with Lojban: Upper and lower cases
Lojban usage contrasted with English: Upper and lower cases

lower-case word

effect on following lerfu words: Upper and lower cases

lujvo

"zi'o" rafsi effect on place structure of: lujvo based on pro-sumti

abbreviated: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

abstract: Abstract lujvo

algorithm for: The lujvo-making algorithm

and consonant pairs: rafsi

and plausibility: Considerations for making lujvo

and seltau/tertau relationship: The meaning of lujvo

and the listener: Considerations for making lujvo

as a subtype of brivla: brivla

as suppliers of agent place: Notes on gismu place structures

asymmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

based on multiple tanru: Considerations for making lujvo

cmavo incorporation: Why have lujvo?

comparatives: Comparatives and superlatives

compared with tanru: Why have lujvo?

consideration in choosing meaning for: Considerations for making lujvo

considerations for retaining elements of: Considerations for making lujvo

construction of: lujvo

definition

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

design consideration for relationship: The meaning of lujvo

dropping elements of: Considerations for making lujvo

dropping SE rafsi: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

examples of making: The lujvo scoring algorithm

from cmavo with no rafsi: rafsi

from tanru: lujvo

fully reduced: rafsi

guidelines for place structure: Why have lujvo?

interpreting: The meaning of lujvo

invention of: lujvo

meaning drift of: Considerations for making lujvo

meaning of: lujvo

multiple forms of: lujvo

place structure of figurative lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators

pro-sumti rafsi effect on place structure of: lujvo based on pro-sumti

quick-tour version: Examples of brivla

rationale for: Why have lujvo?

recognizing: rafsi

rules for formation of: lujvo

scored examples of: The lujvo scoring algorithm

scoring of: The lujvo-making algorithm

selection of best form of: The lujvo-making algorithm

shorter for more general concepts: Considerations for making lujvo

summary of form characteristics: rafsi

superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives

symmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

ultimate guideline for choice of meaning/place-structure: Considerations for making lujvo

unambiguity of: Considerations for making lujvo

unambiguous decomposition of: lujvo

unreduced: rafsi

unsuitability of for concrete/specific terms and jargon: fu'ivla

with zei: rafsi

lujvo creation

interaction of KE with NAhE: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
interaction of KE with SE: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
use of multiple SE in: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

lujvo form

consonant cluster requirement in: rafsi
final letter of: rafsi
hierarchy of priorities for selection of: The lujvo scoring algorithm
number of letters in: rafsi
requirements for hyphen insertion in: rafsi
requirements for n-hyphen insertion in: rafsi
requirements for r-hyphen insertion in: rafsi
requirements for y-hyphen insertion in: rafsi

lujvo place order: Ordering lujvo places.

asymmetrical lujvo: Ordering lujvo places.
based on 3-or-more part veljvo: lujvo with more than two parts.
comparatives: Comparatives and superlatives
rationale for standardization: Ordering lujvo places.
superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives
superlatives as exceptions: Comparatives and superlatives
symmetrical lujvo: Ordering lujvo places.

lujvo place structure

"ni" lujvo: Abstract lujvo

"nu" lujvo: Abstract lujvo

basis of: Selecting places

comparative lujvo: Comparatives and superlatives

cross-dependent places: Dependent places

dependent places: Dependent places

dropping "KE": Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

dropping "KEhE": Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

dropping cross-dependent places: Dependent places

dropping dependent places

caveat: Dependent places

dropping dependent seltau places: Dependent places

dropping dependent tertau places: Dependent places

dropping redundant places: The meaning of lujvo

effect of "SE": Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

effect of "SE"-dropping in tertau: Eliding SE rafsi from tertau

explicated walk-through: The meaning of lujvo

guidelines: Why have lujvo?

multi-place abstraction lujvo: Abstract lujvo

notation conventions: The meaning of lujvo

rationale for standardization: Selecting places

selecting tertau: Dependent places

superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives

when first place redundant with non-first: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

when first places redundant: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

when first places redundant plus others: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

lukewarm food: sumti qualifiers

M

magic square: Vectors and matrices

male sexual teacher

example: lujvo-making examples

man biting dog: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

man or woman: Logical connection and truth tables

man-woman: Logical connection within tanru

manhole: Compound spatial tenses

manysome: Special mekso selbri

maple sugar: fu'ivla

maple trees: fu'ivla

marathon: Types of event abstractions

Mars road

example: Conversion: SE

mass

compared with set as abstract of multiple individuals: Masses and sets
contrasted with ordered sequence: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with set in attribution of component properties: Masses and sets
contrasted with set in distribution of properties: Non-logical connectives
expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri
expressing relation with individuals forming: Special mekso selbri
expressing relation with set forming: Special mekso selbri
joining elements into a mass: Non-logical connectives

mass contrasted with components

in properties of: Non-logical connectives

mass name

use of: Individuals and masses

mass object

and logical reasoning: Individuals and masses
as dependent on intention: Individuals and masses
contrasted with multiple individual objects: Individuals and masses
properties of: Individuals and masses

mass objects

peculiarities of English translation of: Individuals and masses

masses

rule for implicit outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions

mathematical equality

expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations

mathematical expression

referring to: Other uses of mekso

mathematical expressions

connectives in: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
implicit quantifier for: Number summary
tensed connection in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

mathematical expressions in tanru: Other kinds of simple selbri

mathematical intervals: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

mathematical notation

and omitted operators: Introductory
and operator precedence: Simple infix expressions and equations
infix: Simple infix expressions and equations
international uniqueness of: Introductory

mathematical operators: Simple infix expressions and equations

mathematical texts

effect on lerfu shift scope: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

mathematical variables

lerfu strings as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

mathematics

use of lerfu strings in: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

matrices

use as operands: Vectors and matrices
use of parentheses with: Vectors and matrices

matrix

as combination of vectors: Vectors and matrices
definition: Vectors and matrices
with "ge'a" for more than 2 rows/columns: Vectors and matrices
with more than 2 dimensions: Vectors and matrices

matrix column operator: Vectors and matrices

matrix row operator: Vectors and matrices

Mayan mathematics

as a system with base larger than 16: Non-decimal and compound bases

measurements

expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations

meat slice: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

medieval weapon: lujvo with more than two parts.

mei

place structure formed for objective indefinites: Special mekso selbri

mekso

and literary translation: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
complex used as quantifier: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
design goals: Introductory

mekso chapter

completeness: Introductory
table notation convention: Introductory

mekso goal

coverage: Introductory
expandable: Introductory
for common use: Introductory
for mathematical writing: Introductory
precision: Introductory
unambiguous: Introductory

mekso goals

and ambiguity: Introductory
and non-mathematical expression: Introductory
mathematical notation form: Introductory

melting: Notes on gismu place structures

membership

property of sets: Masses and sets

mental activity: Predication/sentence abstraction

mental discomfort

example: Emotional categories

metalinguistic comment

with embedded discursive: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

metalinguistic levels: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

metalinguistic levels or reference: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

metalinguistic pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary

metalinguistic words

quick-tour version: Indicators

mice: Minor abstraction types

minutes

example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases

misinterpretation: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

Mitsubishi: What about Chinese characters?

mixed claim

definition: Universal claims

mixed modal connection

afterthought: Mixed modal connection
as proscribed in forethought: Mixed modal connection
definition: Mixed modal connection
of bridi-tails: Mixed modal connection
of sentences: Mixed modal connection
of sumti: Mixed modal connection

mixed with: Non-logical connectives

modal bridi-tail connection: Other modal connections

modal causals

implication differences: Modal sentence connection: the causals

modal cmavo

basis in gismu place structure: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents
position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation
regular form for derivation: CV'V cmavo of selma'o BAI with irregular forms
table with English equivalents: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents

modal cmavo table

format of: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents

modal connection

simultaneous with logical: Mixed modal connection

modal connection of selbri

using bridi-tail modal connection: Other modal connections

modal connectives

fi'o prohibited in: Other modal connections

modal conversion

access to original first place with fai: Modal conversion: JAI
grammar of: Modal conversion: JAI
place structure of: Modal conversion: JAI
with no modal specified: Modal conversion: JAI

modal conversion with fi'o: Modal conversion: JAI

modal conversion without modal

as vague: Modal conversion: JAI

modal conversions

in descriptions: Modal conversion: JAI

modal followed by selbri

compared with tanru modification in meaning: Modal selbri
contrasted with tanru modification in grammar: Modal selbri
effect on eliding cu: Modal selbri

modal operand connection: Other modal connections

modal place

definition: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
on description selbri: Modal tags: BAI
rationale for term name: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
relation of to selbri: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU

modal place relation

importance of first place in: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU

modal sentence connection: Modal sentence connection: the causals

condensing: Other modal connections
effect on modal: Modal sentence connection: the causals
forethought: Other modal connections
relation to modal of first sentence in: Modal sentence connection: the causals
relation to modal of second sentence in: Modal sentence connection: the causals
table of equivalent schemata: Tenses versus modals
with other than causals: Modal sentence connection: the causals

modal sumti

and FA marking: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
as first place of modal tag selbri: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
definition (see also seltcita sumti): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
effect on place structure: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
leaving vague: Modal selbri
position in bridi: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
unspecified: Modal selbri

modal sumti connection: Other modal connections

modal tag

definition (see also sumtcita): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
fi'o with selbri as: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
for vague relationship: Modal tags: BAI

modal tags

contrasted with English prepositions in preciseness: Modal tags: BAI
short forms as BAI cmavo: Modal tags: BAI

modal tags and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

modal-or-tense question

with "cu'e": Tense questions: cu'e

modal-or-tense questions

pre-specifying some information: Tense questions: cu'e

modals

compared with tenses in syntax: Tenses versus modals
contradictory negation of: Modal negation
contrasted with tenses in semantics: Tenses versus modals
expanding scope over inner modal connection: Modal selbri
expanding scope over logical connection with ke ... ke'e: Modal selbri
expanding scope over multiple sentences with tu'e…tu'u: Modal selbri
expanding scope over non-logical connection: Modal selbri
for causal gismu: Modal sentence connection: the causals
importance of 1st sumti place for sumtcita use: Tenses versus modals
improving relative phrase preciseness with : Modal relative phrases; Comparison
making long-scope: Sticky modals
making sticky: Sticky modals
negation of: Modal negation
scalar negation of: Modal negation
termset connection: Other modal connections

modals often attached with relative phrases

list: Modal relative phrases; Comparison

modifier

seltau as: Simple tanru

modifying brivla (see also seltau): lujvo

Mon Repos: Dependent places

more

English word "more"

expressing with relative phrases: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
importance of relative phrase to: Modal relative phrases; Comparison

more than: Approximation and inexact numbers

contrasted with less than

at least, at most: Approximation and inexact numbers

more than two: Approximation and inexact numbers

morphology

conventions for: Introductory
definition: Introductory
derivational: Introductory
simplicity of: Introductory
symbolic conventions for discussing: Introductory

mother father: lujvo

movement

order in tense constructs: Movement in space: MOhI
time: Movement in space: MOhI
with multiple directions: Movement in space: MOhI

movement specification

interaction with direction in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI

movie

example of going to

office: example: Tagging places: FA

multiple "ma"

as multiple questions: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo

multiple "mo"

as multiple questions: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo

multiple compound bridi

restriction on "ke": Multiple compound bridi

multiple conversion

avoiding: Conversion: SE
effect of ordering: Conversion: SE

multiple indefinite sumti

effect of re-ordering in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers
expressing with equal scope: Grouping of quantifiers
meaning: Grouping of quantifiers

multiple indefinite sumti scope

in termset: Grouping of quantifiers

multiple indicators: The uses of indicators

multiple individual objects

contrasted with mass object: Individuals and masses
meaning of: Individuals and masses

multiple letters

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters

multiple logical connectives

within tanru: Logical connection within tanru

multiple quantification

effect on selbri placement among sumti: Using naku outside a prenex

multiple questions in one bridi

expressing: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo

multiple relative clauses

attaching with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
connecting different kinds with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e

multiple speakers: Erasure: SI, SA, SU

multiple sumti in one place

avoiding: Tagging places: FA

multiple tanru inversion

effect on grouping: Inversion of tanru: co

multiple tenses

effect of order in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

my: Possessive sumti

my chair: Multiple relative clauses: zi'e

myth

example: Evidentials

N

n people: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

n-hyphen

contrasted with r-hyphen in requirements for use: rafsi
use of: lujvo, rafsi

nai

effect on intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

name equivalent for typical

rationale for lack of: Descriptors for typical objects

name words

recognition of: Lojban names

name-words

permissible consonant combinations: Lojban names

names

algorithm for: cmevla
as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
assigning with "goi": Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
authority for: cmevla
borrowing from other languages: Lojban names
examples of: cmevla
from Lojban words: cmevla
in vocative phrase: Lojban names
multiple: Lojban names
pause requirement in lerfu words: The universal bu
purpose of: cmevla
quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti
rationale for lojbanizing: cmevla
rules for: cmevla
rules for formation: cmevla
stress in: cmevla, cmevla
two kinds of: Lojban names
unusual stress in: cmevla
uses of: Lojban names
using rafsi: Lojban names
with LA descriptor: Lojban names

names from vowel-final base

commonly used consonant endings: Lojban names

names in Lojban (see also cmevla): cmevla

names with la

implicit quantifier for: Lojban names

naming predicate: The three basic description types

NATO: Acronyms

natural end

continuing beyond: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
contrasted with actual stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

Navajo

example: fu'ivla

near the faraway park: Tenses as sumtcita

near the park: Tenses as sumtcita

nearby in time: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

need any box: The problem of “any”

negated intervals

meaning of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

negating a forethought-connected bridi-tail pair: Multiple compound bridi

negating a forethought-connected sentence pair: Multiple compound bridi

negating a sentence

and truth value: Logical connection and truth tables

negation

complex examples: Scalar negation of selbri
form for emulating natural language negation: Using naku outside a prenex
of operand: Miscellany
of operator: Miscellany
of tenses: Tense negation

negation and logical connectives

caveat for logic chapter discussions: bridi negation and logical connectives

negation between sentences

compared with bridi negation: bridi negation and logical connectives
meaning of: bridi negation and logical connectives

negation boundary

and zero: Negation boundaries
effect of moving: Negation boundaries

negation cmavo

position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation

negation in prenex

effects of position: Negation boundaries

negation manipulation

"na" contrasted with "naku" in difficulty of: Using naku outside a prenex
"naku" contrasted with "na" in difficulty of: Using naku outside a prenex

negation of 'fi'o'-modals

by negating selbri: Modal negation

negation of modals: Modal negation

contradictory: Modal negation
scalar: Modal negation

negation of tenses

meaning of: Tense negation

negation sumti qualifiers

meanings of: sumti qualifiers

negations with logical connectives

effects on expansion of sentence: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

negative answer

quick-tour version: Questions

negative numbers

expressing: Signs and numerical punctuation

negative sign

contrasted with subtraction operator: Special numbers

negator

movement from bridi to sumti: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

new notation: The meaning of lujvo

New York city: Relative phrases, Relative phrases

New York state: Relative phrases

Newport News: Lojban names

news: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU

nobody

ambiguous interpretations of: What's wrong with this picture?
interpretation of: What's wrong with this picture?
Lojban contrasted with English: What's wrong with this picture?

noisy environments

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

non-logical connection

and elidability of terminators: Non-logical connectives

in mathematical expressions: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

in tanru

distinguishing from connection of sumti: Non-logical connectives

of individuals into mass: Non-logical connectives

of individuals into set: Non-logical connectives

of modals: Logical and non-logical connection of modals

of operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

of operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

of sumti

distinguishing from connection in tanru: Non-logical connectives

of termsets: More about non-logical connectives

non-logical connectives

effect of "nai" on: More about non-logical connectives
grouping: More about non-logical connectives
including tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
ordered intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
sentence: More about non-logical connectives
syntax rules summary: Rules for making logical and non-logical connectives
un-ordered intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
within tanru: Logical connection within tanru

non-logical forethought termsets

connecting tagged sumti: More about non-logical connectives

non-logically connected tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

non-Lojban quotation: Quotation summary

non-Lojban text

rules for pause with: Rules for inserting pauses

non-restrictive relative clause

definition (see also incidental relative clause): Incidental relative clauses

non-specific descriptions: The three basic description types

non-standard orthographies

caveat: Oddball orthographies
Cyrillic: Oddball orthographies
Tengwar: Oddball orthographies
zbalermorna: Oddball orthographies

nonagenarian: Comparatives and superlatives

normal circumstances: Event abstraction

notation conventions

for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi

nothing sits: Negation boundaries

nouns

brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla

Nth rat: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

nth rat: Special mekso selbri

Nthly: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

null operand

for infix operations with too few operands: Infix operators revisited

null operator

for infix operations with too many operands: Infix operators revisited

number article

explanation of use: Simple infix expressions and equations

number questions: Number questions

answers to: Number questions

number sumti

syntax of: Number summary
with "li": Number summary
with "li" contrasted with "me'o": Number summary
with "me'o": Number summary
with "me'o" contrasted with "li": Number summary

number words

pattern in: Lojban numbers

numbers

as compound cmavo: Lojban numbers
as grammatically complete utterances: Number questions
as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo
English contrasted with Lojban on exactness: Variables with generalized quantifiers
expressing simple: Lojban numbers
greater than 9: Lojban numbers
implicit quantifier for: Number summary
list of indefinite: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
list of special: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
Lojban contrasted with English on exactness: Variables with generalized quantifiers
on logical variables: Variables with generalized quantifiers
rafsi for: rafsi
special: Special numbers
talking about contrasted with using for quantification: Simple infix expressions and equations
using for quantification contrasted with talking about: Simple infix expressions and equations

numeric digits in lerfu words

grammar considerations: What about Chinese characters?

numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation

undefined: Special numbers

numerical selbri

alternative to compensate for restriction on numbers: Special mekso selbri

based on non-numerical sumti: Special mekso selbri

complex: Special mekso selbri

grammar: Special mekso selbri

restriction on numbers used for: Special mekso selbri

special: Special mekso selbri

with lerfu strings: Special mekso selbri

use of "me" with: Special mekso selbri

numerical tenses

effect on use of "boi": Other uses of mekso

NYC: Acronyms

O

O

notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels

observation: Evidentials

observation evidential

contrasted with observative : Evidentials

observative

contrasted with observation evidential: Evidentials
definition: Standard bridi form: cu

observative form

contrasted with command: Standard bridi form: cu

observative with elided CAhA

convention: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

observatives

and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction
quick-tour version: Variant bridi structure

ocean shell: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

octal system

specifying numbers in (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases

octogenarian: Comparatives and superlatives

of

English word "of"

compared with "do'e": Modal tags: BAI

Old McDonald: The special Lojban characters

old topic: Paragraphs: NIhO

omission of descriptor

effect on ku: Indefinite descriptions

omitting terminators

perils of: Scalar negation of selbri

on right

contrasted with toward right: Movement in space: MOhI

on two occasions: Sub-events

on verge: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

once: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

once and future king: Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection

One

the: cmevla

one-third of food: Special mekso selbri

only: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives

only if

compared with English "if … then": Logical connection of bridi

only once: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

open interval: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection

expressed with "mi'i": Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

operand

converting from operator: Miscellany
converting into operator: Miscellany
converting selbri into: Using Lojban resources within mekso
converting sumti into: Using Lojban resources within mekso

operand connection

afterthought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
forethought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

operand modal connection: Other modal connections

operands

connecting: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
contrasted with general sumti: Simple infix expressions and equations
too few for infix operation: Infix operators revisited
too many for infix operation: Infix operators revisited

operator

converting from operand: Miscellany
converting into operand: Miscellany
converting into selbri: Other uses of mekso
converting selbri into: Using Lojban resources within mekso

operator connection

afterthought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
forethought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

operator derived from selbri

effect of selbri place structure on: Using Lojban resources within mekso

operator left-right grouping

as Lojban default: Simple infix expressions and equations

operator precedence

and mathematical notation: Simple infix expressions and equations
effect of pragmatic convention: Simple infix expressions and equations
generalized explicit specification: Simple infix expressions and equations
in Lojban default: Simple infix expressions and equations
plans for future: Explicit operator precedence
rationale for default left-grouping: Simple infix expressions and equations
scope modification with "bi'e": Simple infix expressions and equations
specifying by parenthesis: Simple infix expressions and equations

operator precedence in other languages: Simple infix expressions and equations

operators

analogue of tanru in: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
connecting: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
list of simple: Complete table of VUhU cmavo, with operand structures

operators of VUhU

grammar of operands: Simple infix expressions and equations

opinion: Evidentials

opposite-of-minus: Miscellany

or

English "and/or" contrasted with "either … or … but not both": Logical connection and truth tables

order of variables

in moving to prenex: Variables with generalized quantifiers

ordered sequence

by listing members: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with mass: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with set: Non-logical connectives

ordinal selbri

definition: Special mekso selbri
place structure: Special mekso selbri
place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri

ordinal tense: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

orthography

non-standard: Oddball orthographies
relation to pronunciation: Orthography

outer product: Vectors and matrices

outer quantifier

contrasted with inner quantifier: Quantified descriptions
definition: Quantified descriptions
effect of on meaning: Quantified descriptions
implicit on descriptors: Quantified descriptions
in indefinite description: Indefinite descriptions

outer quantifiers

for expressing subsets: Quantified descriptions
rationale for differences in implicit quantifier on descriptors: Quantified descriptions

outer sumti

prenex for referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses
referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses

owe money: Multiple compound bridi

P

paragraph separation

spoken text: Paragraphs: NIhO
written text: Paragraphs: NIhO

paragraphs

effects on scope: Paragraphs: NIhO
separator: Paragraphs: NIhO

parasitic worms

example: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

parentheses

for complex mekso used as quantifier: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

parenthesis

mathematical: Simple infix expressions and equations

partial quotation: Miscellaneous indicators

parts of speech: Introductory

passive voice: Varying the order of sumti

past event

possible extension into present: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

pastward

as a spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA

paternal grandmother

example: lujvo

pausative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

pause

and cmevla: Rules for inserting pauses
and consonant-final words: Rules for inserting pauses
and Cy-form cmavo: Rules for inserting pauses
and final-syllable stress: Rules for inserting pauses
and non-Lojban text: Rules for inserting pauses
and vowel-initial words: Rules for inserting pauses
between words: Rules for inserting pauses
contrasted with stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
contrasted with syllable break: The special Lojban characters
proscribed within words: Rules for inserting pauses
representation of in Lojban: The special Lojban characters
requirement between stressed syllables: cmavo
symbol for: The universal bu
word for: The universal bu

pauses

before vowels: cmavo
rules for: Rules for inserting pauses

peace symbol: Computerized character codes

percent

as numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation

perils of omitting terminators: Scalar negation of selbri

period

definition of: The special Lojban characters
example of: The special Lojban characters
optional: The special Lojban characters
quick-tour version: Pronunciation
within a word: The special Lojban characters

Persian rug: rafsi

person's arm: Relative phrases

personal pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

implicit cancellation of by change of speaker/listener: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

personal pronouns

with ko'a-series for he/she/it/they: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
with mi-series for I/you: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

personal pronouns for he/she/it/they

English contrasted with Lojban in organization: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

Pete: cmevla

Pheidippides: Types of event abstractions

phonetic alphabet: Basic phonetics

Phonetic Alphabet

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

physical distress

example: Emotional categories

piano-moving: Individuals and masses

pictures

credits for: Acknowledgements and credits

pinyin

as a basis for Chinese characters in Lojban lerfu words: What about Chinese characters?

piro

explanation of meaning: Quantified descriptions

pisu'o

explanation of meaning: Quantified descriptions

place of eating: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI

place structure

adding new places to with modal sumti: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
definition: Introductory
definition of: The concept of the bridi
effect of FA on: Tagging places: FA
effect of modal conversion on: Modal conversion: JAI
empty slots in: Introductory
explicitly mapping sumti to place with FA: Tagging places: FA
gismu: Notes on gismu place structures
instability of: Introductory
leaving a sumti place unspecified in with zo'e: Standard bridi form: cu
notation conventions: Introductory
re-ordering by conversion: Conversion of simple selbri

place structure and tanru inversion: Inversion of tanru: co

place structure of selbri

determining: Introductory

place structure order

effect of FA on: Tagging places: FA

place structure questions: Tagging places: FA

place structures

omitting places with FA: Tagging places: FA
omitting places with zo'e: Standard bridi form: cu

plant grows: Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal negation

plants

use of fu'ivla for specific: fu'ivla

plausibility

in abbreviated lujvo: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

playgrounds: Dependent places

pleases: The sumti di'u and la'e di'u

plural

Lojban equivalent of: Approximation and inexact numbers

plural masses

possible use for: Quantified descriptions

plurals

Lojban contrasted with English in necessity of marking: The three basic description types

plurals with le

meaning of: Individuals and masses

point

event considered as: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

point-event abstraction

place structure: Types of event abstractions

point-event abstractions

definition: Types of event abstractions
related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses

point-event abstractor: Types of event abstractions

pointing

reference by: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

pointing cmavo

quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti

police lineup: Number questions

Polish notation

and mekso goals: Introductory

Polish notation mixed with infix: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

example: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

politeness

thank you and you're welcome: Vocative scales
you're welcome: Vocative scales, Vocative scales

portion

on set contrasted with on individual: Quantified descriptions

portion selbri

definition: Special mekso selbri
place structure: Special mekso selbri
place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri

positive numbers

explicit expression: Signs and numerical punctuation

positive sign

contrasted with addition operator: Simple infix expressions and equations

possessed in relative phrases

compared with possessor: Relative phrases

possession

expressing with "po": Relative phrases

intrinsic

expressing with po'e: Relative phrases

Lojban usage compared with French and German in omission/inclusion: Relative phrases

Lojban usage contrasted with English in omission/inclusion: Relative phrases

quick-tour version: Possession

possession not ownership

quick-tour version: Possession

possessive sumti

compared with relative phrase: Possessive sumti
contrasted with relative phrases in complexity allowed: Possessive sumti
definition: Possessive sumti
effect on elidability of ku: Possessive sumti
relative clauses on: Possessive sumti
syntax allowed: Possessive sumti
with relative clauses on possessive sumti: Possessive sumti

possessive sumti and relative clauses

development history: Possessive sumti

possessive sumti with relative clauses

effect of placement: Possessive sumti

possessor in relative phrases

compared with possessed: Relative phrases

possessor sumti

definition: Possessive sumti

potential

expressing in past/future: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

potential events

expressing implicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

prayer: Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.

precedence

mathematical default: Simple infix expressions and equations

precise erasures: Erasure: SI, SA, SU

predicate answers: Questions and answers

predication

as a relationship: The concept of the bridi
compared with bridi: The concept of the bridi

Preem Palver: Other kinds of simple selbri

pregnant sister: Discursives, Discursives

prenex

considerations for dropping: Dropping the prenex
dropping for terseness: Dropping the prenex
effect of order of variables in: Dropping the prenex
explanation: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
internal to a bridi: The problem of “any”
purpose of: Dropping the prenex
removing when numeric quantifiers present: Variables with generalized quantifiers
syntax of: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
use for outer sumti reference: Relative clauses within relative clauses

prenex manipulation

exporting "na" from left of prenex: bridi negation and logical connectives
importing "na" from selbri: bridi negation and logical connectives
moving "naku" past bound variable: bridi negation and logical connectives
rules: bridi negation and logical connectives

prenex scope

for sentences joined by ".i": A few notes on variables
for sentences joined by ijeks: A few notes on variables
in abstractions: A few notes on variables
in embedded bridi: A few notes on variables
in relative clauses: A few notes on variables
informal: A few notes on variables

prepositions

cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo

pretty

English ambiguity of: Complex tanru grouping

pretty little girls' school

forty ways: “Pretty little girls' school” : forty ways to say it

previous topic: Paragraphs: NIhO

pride of lions: Using Lojban resources within mekso

primitive roots

gismu as: brivla

principle of consistency

of logical-if statements: Logical connection of bridi

pro-bridi

as abbreviation for bridi: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
broda-series: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
compared to pro-sumti as means of abbreviation: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
overriding sumti of antecedent bridi for: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO

pro-bridi assignment

"no'i" effect on: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
explicit cancellation of with "da'o": Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

pro-bridi rafsi

as producing context-dependent meanings: lujvo based on pro-sumti

pro-sumti

and discursive utterances: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti

classes of: Pro-sumti summary

compared to pro-bridi as means of abbreviation: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

compared to pronouns in usage as abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

contrasted with description: The five kinds of simple sumti

definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

di'u-series: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series

for listener(s): Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

for listeners and/or speakers and/or others: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

for relativized sumti in relative clauses: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a

for speaker(s): Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary

ko'a-series: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

lerfu as: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

lerfu string

effect on reference to lerfu itself: References to lerfu

lerfu strings

interaction with quantifiers and boi: lerfu words as pro-sumti

mi-series: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti

rafsi for: lujvo based on pro-sumti

referring to place of different bridi with go'i-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

referring to place of same bridi with vo'a-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO

series: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

ti-series: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

typical: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

unspecified: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

vo'a-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

pro-sumti assignment

"no'i" effect on: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
explicit cancellation of with "da'o": Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

pro-sumti for "we"

contrasted with English "we": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

pro-sumti for speaker/listener/others

as masses: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
relation to "joi": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series

pro-sumti for utterances: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series

pro-sumti rafsi

anticipated use of for abbreviating inconvenient forms: lujvo based on pro-sumti
effect of on place structure of lujvo: lujvo based on pro-sumti

probability .5: Special mekso selbri

probability selbri

definition: Special mekso selbri
place structure: Special mekso selbri
place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
values: Special mekso selbri

process abstraction

place structure: Types of event abstractions

process abstractions

definition: Types of event abstractions
related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses

process abstractor: Types of event abstractions

process event

described: Types of event abstractions

pronouncement: Evidentials

pronouns

as anaphora: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
compared to pro-sumti in usage as abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

pronouns in English

as independent of abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
as noun abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

pronunciation

IPA for Lojban: Basic phonetics
quick-tour version: Pronunciation
relation to orthography: Orthography
standard: Basic phonetics

properties

place structure: Property abstractions

property abstraction

specifying sumti place of property with "ce'u": Abstraction focus pro-sumti: ce'u

property abstractions

specifying determining place by sumti ellipsis: Property abstractions
specifying determining place with "ce'u": Property abstractions
sumti ellipsis in: Property abstractions
use of multiple "ce'u" for relationship abstraction: Property abstractions

property of loving: Property abstractions

proposed law: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau

proposed lerfu words

as working basis: Proposed lerfu words – introduction

propositional

of attitudinals: Propositional attitude indicators

propositional attitudes: Predication/sentence abstraction

compared with knowledge discursives: Discursives

protocol

computer communications using COI: Vocative scales
parliamentary using COI: Vocative scales
using vocatives: Vocative scales

punctuation

in numbers: Signs and numerical punctuation
list of numerical: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers

punctuation lerfu words

interaction with different alphabet systems: Punctuation marks
mechanism for creating: Punctuation marks
rationale for "lau": Punctuation marks

punctuation marks

cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo

Q

quack: Alien alphabets

quadratic formula: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

qualified sumti

contrasted with unqualified sumti: sumti qualifiers

quantification

before description sumti compared with before non-description sumti: Quantified descriptions

quantificational pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

implicit quantification rules: Pro-sumti summary

quantified space: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

quantified sumti

different types contrasted for scope for distribution: Grouping of quantifiers

quantified temporal tense

definition: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
negating with "nai": Interval properties: TAhE and roi

quantified temporal tense with direction

Lojban contrasted with English in implications: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

quantified temporal tenses

"once" contrasted with "only once": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
caveat on implication of: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

quantified tenses

as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

quantifier

lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
on previously quantified variable: A few notes on variables

quantifier scope

in multiple connected sentences: bridi negation and logical connectives

quantifiers

effect of moving "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
with logical variables: Variables with generalized quantifiers
with sumti: Quantified sumti

quark: fu'ivla

question pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary

questions

answering with "go'i": Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
connection: Truth questions and connective questions
digit: Number questions
fill-in-the-blank: Questions and answers
marking in advance: Miscellaneous indicators
multiple: Questions and answers
number: Number questions, Questions and answers
operator: Other uses of mekso
place structure position: Tagging places: FA
quick-tour version: Questions, Questions
rhetorical: Miscellaneous indicators
selbri: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo, Questions and answers
sumti: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo, Questions and answers
truth: Questions and answers
with "xu": Miscellaneous indicators

quick runner: Simple tanru

quotation

contrasted with "me'o" for representing lerfu: References to lerfu
contrasted with sentence abstraction: Predication/sentence abstraction
four kinds: Quotation summary
implicit quantifier for: Quotation summary

quotations

as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
implicit quantifier for: Quantified sumti

R

r-hyphen

contrasted with n-hyphen in requirements for use: rafsi
use of: lujvo, rafsi

radio communication

proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication

radix

decimal (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases

rafsi

as fu'ivla categorizer: fu'ivla

based on pro-sumti: lujvo based on pro-sumti

considerations restricting construction of: rafsi

contrasted with cmavo in usage: rafsi

contrasted with same-form cmavo in meaning: lujvo

contrasted with words: rafsi

conventional meaning for "cu'o": Miscellany

conventional meaning for "frinu": Miscellany

definition: lujvo

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

forms of: rafsi

four-letter

requirement for y-hyphen: rafsi

lack of

effect on forming lujvo: rafsi

level of uniqueness of relation to gismu: rafsi

long: rafsi

multiple for each gismu: Considerations for making lujvo

multiplicity of for single gismu: rafsi

possible forms for construction of: rafsi

rationale for assignments of: rafsi

rules for combining to form lujvo: lujvo

selection considerations in making lujvo: rafsi

short: rafsi

uniqueness in gismu referent of: rafsi

use of: rafsi

rafsi assignments

non-reassignability of: rafsi

rafsi for numbers: rafsi

rafsi form

effect of choice on meaning of lujvo: lujvo

rafsi fu'ivla: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu

rafsi space: rafsi

Ralph: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

rat eats cheese: Interval properties: TAhE and roi, Tenses as sumtcita, Tenses as sumtcita, Tenses as sumtcita

rat eats cheese in park: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI, Conversion of sumtcita: JAI

rats are brown: Masses and sets

rats in park: Special mekso selbri

re-ordering logical variables with "se": Dropping the prenex

real world

contrasted with hypothetical world

example: Discursives

real world point of view: Discursives

Received Pronunciation: IPA for English speakers

reciprocal

expression of mathematical: Signs and numerical punctuation

reciprocal pro-sumti: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

reciprocity

expressing with "soi": Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
expressing with vo'a-series pro-sumti and "soi": Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

recital rooms: Dependent places

Red Pony: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers

red pony: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o, Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

redundancy

effect on vocative design: Vocative scales

reference

ambiguity of "ti"/"ta"/"tu": What are you pointing at?
and discursive utterances: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
quick-tour version: The sumti di'u and la'e di'u
to relativized sumti with "ke'a": What are you pointing at?
use of relative clause for: What are you pointing at?

reference frame

specifying for direction tenses: Movement in space: MOhI

reference frame for directions in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI

reference grammar: What is this book?

referent

of operand: Miscellany
referring to with "la'e": sumti qualifiers

referent of pro-bridi

definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

referent of pro-sumti

definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

reflexive pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

regularly: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

relation of first places in logical connection of observatives

rationale: Compound bridi

relationship

active/static/attributive compared: The concept of the bridi
as basis of sentence: Introductory
objects of: Introductory

relationship abstraction: Property abstractions

relative clause

compared with tanru: Incidental relative clauses
connecting to relative phrase with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
contrasted with tanru: Incidental relative clauses
effect of omission of ke'a on : What are you pointing at?
restrictive (see also restrictive relative clause): Incidental relative clauses
use for reference: What are you pointing at?

relative clause scope

extending to preceding sumti with "vu'o": Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o, Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

relative clauses

as part of name: Relative clauses and descriptors
effect of commas in English: Incidental relative clauses
effect on elidability of "be'o": Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
impact of indefinite sumti on placement: Relative clauses and descriptors
impact of la on placement: Relative clauses and descriptors
impact of LAhE on placement: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
impact of NAhE on placement: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
kinds of: Incidental relative clauses
list of cmavo for: Index of relative clause cmavo
on connected sumti: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
on names: Relative clauses and descriptors
on number: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
on possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
on quotation: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
on vocative phrases: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
placement with vocative phrases: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
relative clauses within: Relative clauses within relative clauses
restricted contrasted with incidental: Incidental relative clauses
restricted contrasted with incidental in English expression: Incidental relative clauses
syntax with indefinite sumti: Relative clauses and descriptors
use in restricting existential claims: Restricted claims: da poi
use in restricting universal claims: Restricted claims: da poi
use of "ke'a" for referral to relativized sumti in: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a

relative clauses and indefinite sumti

placement considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors

relative clauses and LAhE

placement considerations: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

relative clauses and NAhE

placement considerations: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

relative clauses and names

placement considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors

relative clauses and possessive sumti

development history: Possessive sumti

relative clauses on "lo"

syntax suggestion: Relative clauses and descriptors

relative clauses on complex sumti

Lojban contrasted with English: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o

relative clauses on indefinite sumti

syntax considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors

relative clauses with possessive sumti

effect of placement: Possessive sumti

relative phrase

as an abbreviation of a common relative clause: Relative phrases
compared with possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
connecting to relative clause with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
rationale for: Relative phrases
syntax of: Relative phrases

relative phrases

contrasted with possessive sumti in complexity allowed: Possessive sumti
contrasted with relative clauses in preciseness: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
improving preciseness with modals: Modal relative phrases; Comparison

relative phrases with modals

compared to relative clauses in preciseness: Modal relative phrases; Comparison

relative pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary

relativity theory

relation to Lojban tense system: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

relativized sumti

definition: What are you pointing at?
in relative clauses within relative clauses: Relative clauses within relative clauses

remembered

example: Evidentials

repeating decimals

expressing with numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
marking start of repeating portion: Signs and numerical punctuation

representing lerfu

"lu" contrasted with "me'o": References to lerfu

respectively: Non-logical connectives

specifying with "fa'u": Non-logical connectives
with different relationships: More about non-logical connectives

restricted claims

definition: Restricted claims: da poi

restricted variable

compared with indefinite description: Variables with generalized quantifiers

restrictive relative clause

definition: Incidental relative clauses

resume

contrasted with begin: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

resumptive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

retrospective event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

revelation

example: Evidentials

reverse Polish notation

and mekso goals: Introductory
definition: Reverse Polish notation
marker: Reverse Polish notation
number of operands: Reverse Polish notation
operands of: Reverse Polish notation
parentheses in operands of: Reverse Polish notation
terminator: Reverse Polish notation
use of parentheses in: Reverse Polish notation
with too few operands: Reverse Polish notation
with too many operands: Reverse Polish notation

reviewers of this book: Acknowledgements and credits

rhetorical question: Miscellaneous indicators

rich and German: More about non-logical connectives, More about non-logical connectives

right-grouping in tanru

with "bo": Complex tanru grouping

right-grouping rule

definition of: Complex tanru grouping

righteous indignation

example: Attitudinal modifiers

rock face: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

roger

example: Vocative scales

romaji

as a basis for kanji characters in Lojban lerfu words: What about Chinese characters?

Roman Empire: Types of event abstractions, Types of event abstractions

room which he built: Relative clauses within relative clauses, Relative clauses within relative clauses

rounded down: Approximation and inexact numbers

rounded numbers

expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers

rounded up: Approximation and inexact numbers

rounded/unrounded vowels: Basic phonetics

RP

as abbreviation for reverse Polish notation: Reverse Polish notation

rug

Persian: rafsi

runner shoe: tanru

S

said John: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

salad ingredients: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

Sapir-Whorf effects

and emotional indicators: Tentative conclusion

sarcasm

example: Discursives
expressing: Discursives

scalar attitude: Attitudes as scales

scalar negation

effect on selbri: Scalar negation of selbri

scalar negation of modals

explanation of meaning: Modal negation

scalar negation of non-logical connective: More about non-logical connectives

scale

granular contrasted with continuous: Special mekso selbri

scale of redness: Special mekso selbri

scale selbri

definition: Special mekso selbri
place structure: Special mekso selbri
place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri

school building: Dependent places

schooner: Lojban content words: brivla

scientific names

rules for: cmevla

scientific notation

rationale for order of places: Infix operators revisited
with "gei": Infix operators revisited

score

as 20-year span: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
as alternate base for years: Four score and seven: a mekso problem

seconds

example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases

section numbering: Other uses of mekso

see with eye: Modal selbri

see with left eye: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU

selbri

as part of description: The three basic description types

brivla as: Lojban content words: brivla

converting into an operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso

converting into an operator: Using Lojban resources within mekso

converting operator into: Other uses of mekso

definition: Lojban content words: brivla, Introductory

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

omitting with "co'e": Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

place structure of: Introductory

place structure of converted operator: Other uses of mekso

relation to bridi: Lojban content words: brivla

scalar negation of: Scalar negation of selbri

with GOhA: Other kinds of simple selbri

selbri from sumti: selbri based on sumti: me

selbri list for quick tour: Some words used to indicate selbri relations

selbri logical variables: selbri variables

selbri place structure

effect on operator formed by: Using Lojban resources within mekso

selbri placement among sumti

effect of multiple quantification on: Using naku outside a prenex

selbri questions

quick-tour version: Questions

selbri variables

form when not in prenex: selbri variables
prenex form as indefinite description: selbri variables
quantified: selbri variables

selbri-first bridi

effect on sumti places: Standard bridi form: cu
effect on use of cu: Tagging places: FA
specifying first sumti place in with fa: Tagging places: FA

self-orientation

example: Attitudinal modifiers

selma'o

cross-reference list of

selma'o catalog: A catalogue of selma'o

definition: cmavo

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

seltau

compared with English adjective: lujvo
compared with English adverb: lujvo
definition: Inversion of tanru: co
definition of: Simple tanru
effect on meaning of tanru: Simple tanru
filling sumti places in: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

seltcita sumti

definition (see also modal sumti): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU

sentence

basic Lojban: Introductory

sentences

close grouping: Sentences: I

connecting non-logically: More about non-logical connectives

connecting with tense: Tense relations between sentences

forethought tense connection of: Tense relations between sentences

separator for joining: Sentences: I

tenseless

quick-tour version: Tenses

separate questions

quick-tour version: Questions

separately tensed sentences

contrasted with tense connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences

sequence

as an abstract list: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with list: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with set: sumti qualifiers

sequence of events

expressing non-time-related sequences: More about non-logical connectives

sequence of tense rules

Lojban contrasted with English: Tenses in subordinate bridi

set

as specified by members: Non-logical connectives
by listing members with "ce": Non-logical connectives
compared with mass as abstract of multiple individuals: Masses and sets
contrasted with mass in attribution of component properties: Masses and sets
contrasted with mass in distribution of properties: Non-logical connectives
contrasted with ordered sequence: Non-logical connectives
expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri
expressing relation with individuals forming set: Special mekso selbri
expressing relation with mass formed from set: Special mekso selbri

set of all rats: Special mekso selbri

set of rats: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers

set operations: More about non-logical connectives

sets

properties of: Masses and sets
rule for implicit outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions
use in Lojban place structure: Masses and sets

sexual discomfort

example: Emotional categories

sexual teacher

male

example: lujvo-making examples

shared bridi-tail sumti

avoiding: Other modal connections

shell worm: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

shellfish: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

Sherman tank: rafsi

shift

single-letter

grammar of: Upper and lower cases

shift word

for single letter: Upper and lower cases
scope: Upper and lower cases

shift words

canceling effect: Alien alphabets
for face: Alien alphabets
for font: Alien alphabets

ship sank: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours

shoehorn: Dependent places

shook stick: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?, What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?

short rafsi: rafsi

short rafsi form

compared with long form in effect on lujvo meaning: lujvo

signed numbers

expressing: Signs and numerical punctuation

signs on numbers

grammar: Signs and numerical punctuation

Simon says: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series

simple sumti: The five kinds of simple sumti

simultaneously: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

sinful

example: Attitudinal modifiers

single consonants

contrasted with consonant clusters: Consonant clusters
contrasted with doubled consonants: Consonant clusters

single-letter shift

as toggle: Upper and lower cases

single-word quotation: Quotation summary

singular me: Special mekso selbri

sister pregnant: Discursives, Discursives

six-shooter: Sub-events

size

order with dimensionality in spatial tense intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA

slinku'i test

definition: fu'ivla

slowdown: Types of event abstractions

smiley face

example: The universal bu
word for: The universal bu

sneak in: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

snow falls: Tenses as sumtcita

snowball's chance: Special mekso selbri

social butterfly: tanru

Socrates: Modal sentence connection: the causals

some do not go to school: Using naku outside a prenex

some relationship: selbri variables

somebody

contrasted with somebody else: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

somebody loves self: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

somebody loves somebody: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

somebody's dog: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

something

contrasted with someone: Restricted claims: da poi
expressing using "su'o": Variables with generalized quantifiers
unspecified definite with "zo'e": Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

something is loved by everybody: Negation boundaries

something sees everything: Universal claims

something sees me: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables, Variables with generalized quantifiers

sounds

clarity of: Basic phonetics
complex: Basic phonetics
difficult: Basic phonetics

sounds for letters

Lojban contrasted with English: Basic phonetics

source languages

use in creating gismu: The gismu creation algorithm

south face: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

sow grain: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

sowed grain: Tense questions: cu'e

space

as time-based metaphor: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
contrasted with time in number of directions: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

space intervals

compared with time intervals in continuity: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

space location

as part of tense system (see also tense

spatial tense): Introductory

space tenses

quick-tour version: Tenses

space/time metaphor

expressing direction mapping for: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

spaghetti: fu'ivla, fu'ivla

Spanish ch

example: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

Spanish ll

example: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

spatial contours

as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
contrasted with temporal event contours: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
expressing: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

spatial directions

list of: List of spatial directions and direction-like relations

spatial information

adding to a sentence with tense sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

spatial interval modifiers

order in tense: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

spatial intervals

expressing degree of continuity over: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

spatial tense

4-dimensional interaction with temporal tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
as an imaginary journey: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
as optional in English: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
compared with temporal tense in elidability: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
contrasted with temporal in dimensionality: Dimensionality: VIhA
definition: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
direction: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
distance: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
four-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
linear: Dimensionality: VIhA
one-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
order relative to temporal: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
planar: Dimensionality: VIhA
reference frame: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
referent of: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
three-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
two-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA

spatial tense intervals

order of size and dimensionality in: Dimensionality: VIhA
order of VEhA and VIhA in: Dimensionality: VIhA

spatial tenses

as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
order of direction and distance specifications: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

speaker's state of knowledge: Discursives

speaker-listener cooperation: Questions

speaker-relative viewpoint

contrasted with event-relative viewpoint: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

specific descriptions: The three basic description types

specific terms

use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla

specificity

expressing with "po": Relative phrases

speech rhythm

for grouping in English: Three-part tanru grouping with bo

spelling out words

Lojban contrasted with English in usefulness: A to Z in Lojban, plus one

spiritual discomfort

example: Emotional categories

SQL: Acronyms

square brackets

use of in notation: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

standard bridi form

definition: Standard bridi form: cu

standard for subjective numbers

specifying: Special mekso selbri

standard pronunciation: Basic phonetics

starting marker: Erasure: SI, SA, SU

state abstraction

place structure: Types of event abstractions

state abstractions

definition: Types of event abstractions
related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses

state abstractor: Types of event abstractions

state event

described: Types of event abstractions

steady speed: Types of event abstractions

stereotypical

as not derogatory in Lojban: Descriptors for typical objects
compared with typical: Descriptors for typical objects

stereotypical objects: Descriptors for typical objects

Steven Mark Jones: lerfu words as pro-sumti

sticky modals

'fi'o' proscribed from: Sticky modals
canceling: Sticky modals
definition: Sticky modals

sticky tenses

and CAhA: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
canceling: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
definition: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
effect of nau on: Tenses in subordinate bridi
effect on future tense meaning: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
from part of a multiple tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

stop

contrasted with finish: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
contrasted with pause: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

stories

flow of time in: Story time

story tense

Lojban convention contrasted with English convention: Story time

story time

as a convention for inferring tense: Story time
definition: Story time
rationale for: Story time
tenseless sentences in: Story time
with no initial sticky time: Story time

stress

definition of: Syllabication and stress

effect of buffer vowel on: Buffering of consonant clusters

effect of syllabic consonants on: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

example: Emotional categories

final syllable

rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses

irregular marked with upper-case: Upper and lower cases

levels of: Syllabication and stress

on cmavo: cmavo

primary: Syllabication and stress

quick-tour version: Pronunciation

rules for: Syllabication and stress

secondary: Syllabication and stress

showing non-standard: Orthography

stressed syllable

compared with stressed vowel: Syllabication and stress

stressed vowel

compared with stressed syllable: Syllabication and stress

stroke cat then rabbit: Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives

structure of examples: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

structure of this book: What is this book?

structure words: cmavo

sub-subscripts: Subscripts

subjective amounts

expressing: Indefinite numbers

subjective numbers

effect on place structure for cardinal selbri: Special mekso selbri
effect on place structure for ordinal selbri: Special mekso selbri
effect on place structure for portion selbri: Special mekso selbri
effect on place structure for probability selbri: Special mekso selbri
effect on place structure for scale selbri: Special mekso selbri
rationale for effect on place structure: Special mekso selbri
specifying standard for: Special mekso selbri

subjective portions

expressing: Indefinite numbers

subordinate clause tense

effect of main bridi tense on: Tenses in subordinate bridi
Lojban compared with Esperanto: Tenses in subordinate bridi
Lojban compared with Russian: Tenses in subordinate bridi
Lojban contrasted with English: Tenses in subordinate bridi

subordinate clauses

tense usage rules in English: Tenses in subordinate bridi

subscripted topics: Paragraphs: NIhO

subscripting: Subscripts: XI

subscripts

and fuzzy truths: Subscripts: XI
and names: Subscripts: XI
and paragraph separators: Subscripts: XI
and pro-sumti: Subscripts: XI
and sumti re-ordering: Subscripts: XI
and tense: Subscripts: XI
before main expression: Subscripts
effects on elidability of terminators: Subscripts
external grammar of: Subscripts
for sticky tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
internal grammar of: Subscripts
lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
mathematical: Subscripts: XI
multiple as sub-subscript: Subscripts
multiple for same base word: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
on "ke'a" for nested relative clauses: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a
terminator for: Subscripts
to form matrices of more than 2 dimensions: Vectors and matrices
use with "ke'a" for outer sumti reference: Relative clauses within relative clauses
use with logical variables: A few notes on variables

subscripts on lerfu words

effect on elidability of "boi": Subscripts

subsets

expressing with outer quantifiers: Quantified descriptions

subtraction operator

contrasted with negative sign: Special numbers

subtypes of words: brivla

sumtcita

based on event contours: Tenses as sumtcita
based on spatial contours: Tenses as sumtcita
based on tense direction: Tenses as sumtcita
based on tense distance: Tenses as sumtcita
based on tenses: Tenses as sumtcita
definition (see also modal tag): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
event contours contrasted with direction/distance as basis for: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita and linked sumti: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

sumtcita and modal tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

sumtcita and tense tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

sumtcita based on dimension: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita based on event contours

relation of main bridi to sumti process in: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita based on interval continuousness: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita based on interval properties: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita based on interval size: Tenses as sumtcita

sumtcita based on quantified tenses: Tenses as sumtcita

sumti

as having implicit quantifiers: Quantified sumti

as objects in place structure slots: Introductory

beginning with "ke": Grouping of afterthought connectives

between descriptor and description selbri: Possessive sumti

classified by types of objects referred to: Individuals and masses

converting into an operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso

definition: The five kinds of simple sumti, Introductory

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

descriptions as: The five kinds of simple sumti

dropping trailing unspecified: Standard bridi form: cu

explicitly mapping into place structure with FA: Tagging places: FA

for individual objects: Individuals and masses

for mass objects: Individuals and masses

for set objects: Individuals and masses

forethought tense connection of: Tense relations between sentences

irrelevant to relationship: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

kinds of: The five kinds of simple sumti

multiple in one place with FA: Tagging places: FA

names as: The five kinds of simple sumti

numbers as: The five kinds of simple sumti

omitted first place in selbri-first bridi: Standard bridi form: cu

order in selbri: Standard bridi form: cu

order in selbri-first bridi: Standard bridi form: cu

pro-sumti as: The five kinds of simple sumti

quotations as: The five kinds of simple sumti

re-ordering with FA: Tagging places: FA

relation with bridi: The concept of the bridi

sumti connection

afterthought: sumti connection
forethought: sumti connection

sumti in one place

multiple ones: Tagging places: FA

sumti into selbri: selbri based on sumti: me

sumti logical connection: sumti connection

compared with bridi logical connections: sumti connection
contrasted with tanru logical connection: Logical connection within tanru
rationale for: sumti connection

sumti modal connection: Other modal connections

sumti placement

variant

quick-tour version: Variant bridi structure

sumti qualifiers

as short forms for common special cases: sumti qualifiers
elidable terminator for qualified sumti: sumti qualifiers
external syntax of: sumti qualifiers
for negation: sumti qualifiers
internal syntax of: sumti qualifiers
list of: sumti qualifiers

sumti questions

quick-tour version: Questions

sumti reordering

quick-tour version: Varying the order of sumti

sumti with "lo"

compared to indefinite sumti: Grouping of quantifiers

sumti with tense

effect of main bridi tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

sumti with tenses

quick-tour version: Tenses

sumti-based description

definition: sumti-based descriptions
inner quantifier on: sumti-based descriptions
outer quantifier on: sumti-based descriptions

sumti-based descriptions with le

as increasing restricting to in-mind: sumti-based descriptions

Sun

the: cmevla

sunburn

example: Property abstractions

superfective event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

superscripts: Subscripts

supervising

as a contribution to mass action: Non-logical connectives

supper: rafsi

supplementary information: Dependent places

Susan: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI

sword blade: lujvo with more than two parts.

syllabaries

lerfu word representation: What about Chinese characters?

syllabic consonant

effect on stress determination: cmevla

syllabic consonants: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

effect on stress: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
final in word: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

syllabic l

considered as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory

syllabic m

as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory

syllabic n

as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory

syllabic pronunciations of consonants

in fu'ivla: fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
in fu'ivla category attachment: fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla

syllabic r

as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory

syllabication

and names: Syllabication and stress
definition of: Syllabication and stress
examples of: Syllabication and stress
rules for: Syllabication and stress
variants of: Syllabication and stress

syllable break

contrasted with pause: The special Lojban characters
representation in Lojban: The special Lojban characters
symbol for: The universal bu
word for: The universal bu

symbol

for operand: Miscellany
referring to with "lu'e": sumti qualifiers

symmetrical tanru: Some types of symmetrical tanru

symmetrical tanru types

both separately true: Some types of symmetrical tanru
one or other true: Some types of symmetrical tanru
using crucial/typical parts: Some types of symmetrical tanru
using more inclusive class: Some types of symmetrical tanru

symmetrical veljvo: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

sympathy

example: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours

T

tables

format of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

tagged sumti termsets

connecting with non-logical forethought connectives: More about non-logical connectives

tail-terms

definition: Compound bridi

Take care!: Vocatives and commands

Talk!: Vocatives and commands

talker: tanru

taller: The concept of the bridi

tan(pi/2) = infinity: Using Lojban resources within mekso

tank

Sherman: rafsi

tanru

ambiguity in: lujvo

ambiguity of: lujvo, Simple tanru

and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction

and conversion

quick-tour version: tanru

and creativity: lujvo

as ambiguous: Simple tanru

asymmetrical: Some types of asymmetrical tanru

combination of: lujvo

containing mathematical expressions: Other kinds of simple selbri

default left-grouping of: Three-part tanru grouping with bo

definition: Simple tanru

quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms

expanding: Discursives

explanation of: lujvo

explicating: Discursives

explicitly defining: Discursives

expression of: lujvo

meaning of: Simple tanru

place structure of: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

quick-tour version: tanru

place structures of: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o, Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

possible meanings of: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

primary meaning of: Simple tanru

purpose: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

quick-tour version: tanru

reducing logically connected sumti to

caveat: Logical connection within tanru

simple: Simple tanru

to lujvo: lujvo

with GOhA: Other kinds of simple selbri

tanru and conversion: Conversion of simple selbri

tanru connection

connotation of non-logical: Non-logical connectives

tanru connection grouping

guheks unmarked tanru: Logical connection within tanru

tanru conversion

effect on place structure

quick-tour version: tanru

tanru default grouping

quick-tour version: tanru

tanru grouping

complex: Complex tanru grouping
effect of jeks: Logical connection within tanru
effect of tanru inversion on: Inversion of tanru: co
guheks compared with jeks: Logical connection within tanru
three-part: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
with "bo": Complex tanru grouping
with "ke": Complex tanru with ke and ke'e
with "ke" and "bo": Complex tanru with ke and ke'e

tanru grouping with JA+BO

effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru

tanru inversion: Inversion of tanru: co

definition: Inversion of tanru: co
effect on tanru grouping: Inversion of tanru: co
in complex tanru: Inversion of tanru: co
multiple: Inversion of tanru: co
rule for removing: Inversion of tanru: co
where allowed: Inversion of tanru: co

tanru inversion and place structure: Inversion of tanru: co

tanru logical connection

contrasted with sumti logical connection: Logical connection within tanru

tanru nested within tanru: Three-part tanru grouping with bo

technical terms: What are the typographical conventions of this book?

telephone conversation

hello: Vocative scales

television: IPA for English speakers

template: Minor abstraction types

temporal direction

exception in meaning when following "ze'e": Interval properties: TAhE and roi

temporal information

adding to a sentence with tense sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

temporal tense

as mandatory in English: Introductory
compared with spatial tense in elidability: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
historical definition: Introductory
interaction with 4-dimensional spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
Lojban contrasted with English in necessity: Introductory
order relative to spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
quantified with direction: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
real relationship to time in English: Introductory

temporal tense elision

compared with spatial tense elision in meaning: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

temporal tenses

compared with spatial tenses: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

ten

expressing as number: Lojban numbers

tense

aorist: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

as observer-based: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

as subjective perception: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

connecting sentences in with: Tense relations between sentences

contradictory negation contrasted with scalar negation of: Tense negation

effect of different position in sentence: Introductory

effect of sticky tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

emphasizing by position in sentence: Introductory

explanation of presentation method: Introductory

expressing movement in: Movement in space: MOhI

handling multiple episodes: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

in forethought bridi-tail connection

special rule: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

interval contrasted with point: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

Lojban contrasted with English in implications of completeness: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

Lojban contrasted with English in implying actuality: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

Lojban contrasted with native languages: Introductory

numerical: Other uses of mekso

on embedded bridi: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

order of direction

distance and interval in: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

order of direction specification in: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

order of distance specification in: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA

order of movement specification in: Movement in space: MOhI

order of spatial interval modifiers in: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

order of temporal and spatial in: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

overriding to speaker's current: Tenses in subordinate bridi

point contrasted with interval: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

position in sentence alternative: Introductory

position of in sentence: Introductory

quantified: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

rationale for relative order of temporal and spatial in: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

relation of interval to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

relation of point specified by direction and distance to interval: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

relative order with bridi negation: Tenses and bridi negation

scalar negation contrasted with contradictory negation of: Tense negation

scalar negation of with NAhE: Tense negation

scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO

scope of: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

selbri types applicable to: Introductory

space-time dimension for intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA

speaker's current: Tenses in subordinate bridi

specifying relation of interval to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA

static contrasted with moving: Movement in space: MOhI

subscripting: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

sumtcita form contrasted with connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences

with "ku": Introductory

with both temporal and spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

tense afterthought connection forms

selma'o allowed: Tense relations between sentences

tense and na

multiple: Tenses and bridi negation

tense as sumtcita

contrasted with tense inside sumti: Tenses as sumtcita

tense cmavo

position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation

tense connected sentences

contrasted with separately tensed sentences: Tense relations between sentences
forethought mode: Tense relations between sentences
importance of bo in: Tense relations between sentences

tense connection

equivalent meanings: Tense relations between sentences
expansions of: Tense relations between sentences

tense connection of bridi-tails

meaning of: Tense relations between sentences

tense connection of sentences

contrasted with sumtcita form: Tense relations between sentences
order of: Tense relations between sentences

tense connection of sumti

meaning of: Tense relations between sentences

tense conversion

accessing original first place with "fai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
accessing tense of bridi with "jai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
of temporal tenses: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
use in sumti descriptions: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
with "jai": Conversion of simple selbri

tense direction

as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
contrasted with event contours in implication of extent: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
implications on scope of event: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses

tense direction/distance as sumtcita

contrasted with event contours: Tenses as sumtcita

tense distance

as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

tense forethought connection forms

selma'o allowed: Tense relations between sentences

tense in scope of sticky tense

compared with compound tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

tense inside sumti

contrasted with tense as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

tense on main bridi

effect on embedded bridi tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
effect on embedded sumti with tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

tense questions

by using logical connective question: Tense questions: cu'e
methods of asking: Tense questions: cu'e

tense questions with "ma": Tense questions: cu'e

tense sentence connection

table of equivalent schemata: Tenses versus modals

tense specification

effect on "cu": Introductory
effect on elidability of terminators: Introductory

tense system

and space location: Introductory, Introductory

tense tags and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o

tense with sumtcita

asymmetry of: Tense relations between sentences

tense-or-modal questions

pre-specifying some information: Tense questions: cu'e
with "cu'e": Tense questions: cu'e

tensed connectives

in mathematical expressions: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

tensed logical connection: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

tensed logical connectives: Tensed logical connectives

forethought: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ek…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in gihek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in gihek…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ijek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ijek…"tu'e": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ijoik…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in ijoik…"tu'e": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in jek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in joik…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
in joik…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
with "ke"…"ke'e": Tensed logical connectives
with "tu'e"…"tu'u": Tensed logical connectives

tensed logically connected bridi-tails: Tensed logical connectives

with grouping: Tensed logical connectives

tensed logically connected sentences: Tensed logical connectives

with grouping: Tensed logical connectives

tensed logically connected sumti: Tensed logical connectives

with grouping: Tensed logical connectives

tensed non-logical connectives: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

forethought: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

tenseless sentences in story time: Story time

tenses

compared with modals in syntax: Tenses versus modals

connected

with negation: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

contradictory negation of with "nai": Tense negation

contrasted with modals in semantics: Tenses versus modals

forethought connection in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

forethought logical connections: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

grouping of connectives in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection

importance of 2nd sumti place for sumtcita use: Tenses versus modals

logically connected with JA: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

multiple in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

multiple in sentence compared with compound tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI

negating: Tense negation

non-logical connection of: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

non-logical connection of for sub-events: Sub-events

possible groupings of: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses

quick-tour version: Tenses

use as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita

viewpoint of PU contrasted with viewpoint of ZAhO: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u

tenses with elided CAhA

meaning: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

term

definition: Termset logical connection

terminators

eliding "ku" in non-logical connections: Non-logical connectives

termset

effect on scope of multiple indefinite sumti: Grouping of quantifiers
formation: Termset logical connection

termset logical connection

unequal length: Termset logical connection

termset modal connection: Other modal connections

termsets

compared to fa'u: Non-logical connectives
non-logical connection of: More about non-logical connectives

tertau

definition: Inversion of tanru: co
definition of: Simple tanru
effect on meaning of tanru: Simple tanru

text

division numbering with "mai": Other uses of mekso
sub-division numbering with "mai": Other uses of mekso

text quotation

as internally grammatical: Quotation summary
syntax of: Quotation summary

thank you

example: Vocative scales

the

contrasted with English "a/an": Miscellaneous indicators
for talking about numbers themselves: Simple infix expressions and equations

The men are women: The three basic description types

the two of you: sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions

there is a Y

expression "there is a Y" in English

notation convention: Negation boundaries

thingy: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series

this

adjective expression with "ti noi": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
adjective expression with "vi": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
adjective usage contrasted with pronoun usage: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
as utterance reference in English: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
pronoun expression with ti: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
pronoun usage contrasted with adjective usage: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

this boat: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

this book

author of: Acknowledgements and credits
contributors to: Acknowledgements and credits
credits for: Acknowledgements and credits
examples of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
goal of: What is this book?
reviewers of: Acknowledgements and credits
structure of: What is this book?

this/that in English

compared with ti-series pro-sumti: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

three bears: sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions

three cats white

and two big: A few notes on variables

three dogs bite two men: Grouping of quantifiers

Three Kings: selbri based on sumti: me

three of four people: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

three or four people: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

three rats: Special mekso selbri

thus

example: Evidentials

tilde

a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

time

as part of tense system (see also tense

temporal tense): Introductory

as space-based metaphor: Space interval modifiers: FEhE

contrasted with space in number of directions: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

time tenses

quick-tour version: Tenses

time travel: Movement in space: MOhI

times

explicit expression of: Indefinite numbers
implicit expression of: Indefinite numbers

title

specifying with "tu'e…tu'u": Sentences: I

title of book: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers

to the market from the office: Termset logical connection

to-do list: More about non-logical connectives

Tolkien

and non-standard Lojban orthography: Oddball orthographies

tomorrow: lujvo with more than two parts.

too

example: Discursives

too long: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u, Tenses as sumtcita

too many rats

example: Special mekso selbri

topic-comment

description: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU

topic/comment

multiple sentence: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU

tosmabru test: The lujvo-making algorithm

toward her right: Movement in space: MOhI

toward my right: Movement in space: MOhI

toward right

contrasted with on right: Movement in space: MOhI

transfinite cardinal: Special numbers

transformations with logical connectives

steps: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law

traveling salesperson: Modal tags: BAI

triumph: Types of event abstractions

truncation of number

expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers

truth

in imperative sentences: Truth questions and connective questions

truth functions: Logical connection and truth tables

16 possible: Logical connection and truth tables
commutative: The four basic vowels
creating all 16 with Lojban's basic set: The four basic vowels
fundamental 4 in Lojban: The four basic vowels
relation to logical connectives: The four basic vowels
table of logical connectives: Truth functions and corresponding logical connectives

truth questions: Miscellaneous indicators

answering in English with "no": Truth questions and connective questions
answering in English with "yes": Truth questions and connective questions
as yes-or-no questions: Truth questions and connective questions
contrasted with connection questions: Truth questions and connective questions
simple: Truth questions and connective questions

truth table

explanation: Logical connection and truth tables

truth tables

abbreviated format: Logical connection and truth tables
for 4 fundamental Lojban truth functions: The four basic vowels
list of 16 in abbreviated form: Logical connection and truth tables
notation convention: Logical connection and truth tables

truth-value abstractions

place structure: Truth-value abstraction: jei, Predication/sentence abstraction

try the door: Lojban sumti raising

try to go: Inversion of tanru: co

ts-sound in Russian

representation in Lojban: Basic phonetics

twice today: Tenses as sumtcita

two brothers: Other kinds of simple selbri

two dogs are white: Quantified descriptions

types and subtypes of words: brivla

typical

compared with stereotypical: Descriptors for typical objects

typical Englishman: Descriptors for typical objects

typical Lojban user: Masses and sets

typical objects

and instantiation: Descriptors for typical objects
determining characteristics of: Descriptors for typical objects

typical Smith

example: Descriptors for typical objects

typical sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

typical value

contrasted with elliptical value for sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

U

U

notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels

ugh: More about non-logical connectives

umlaut

a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words

unabridged dictionary: Contrastive emphasis: BAhE

unconditional signal: No more to say: FAhO

unconnected tanru

contrasted with logically connected version: Logical connection within tanru

undemonstrated potential

expressing: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

under compulsion: Modal selbri, Modal selbri, Modal selbri, Modal selbri

under conditions: Event abstraction

underscore notation for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi

unequal termset connection

compared with compound bridi connection with unequal separate bridi-tails: Termset logical connection

unfilled places of inverted tanru: Inversion of tanru: co

Unicode: Computerized character codes

union

of sets: More about non-logical connectives

union of sets

compared with English "or": More about non-logical connectives

units of measurement

expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations

universal

mixed claim with existential: Universal claims

universal claims

dangers of using: Dropping the prenex
explanation: Universal claims
restricting: Restricted claims: da poi, Restricted claims: da poi

unqualified sumti

contrasted with qualified sumti: sumti qualifiers

unreduced fractions

use in granular scales: Special mekso selbri

unreduced lujvo

definition: rafsi

unspecified breed

example: Dependent places

unspecified direction

temporal contrasted with in spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI

unspecified emotion: Compound indicators

unspecified level of emotion: Compound indicators

unspecified route: Standard bridi form: cu

unspecified sumti

non-trailing: Standard bridi form: cu
using zo'e as place-holder for: Standard bridi form: cu

unspecified trailing sumti

dropping: Standard bridi form: cu

unstated emotion: Compound indicators

unusual characters

words for: The universal bu

unvoiced consonants

contrasted with voiced in allowable consonant pairs: Initial consonant pairs

unvoiced vowel glide

apostrophe as: The special Lojban characters

upper-case

lerfu word for: Upper and lower cases

upper-case letters

English usage contrasted with Lojban: Upper and lower cases
Lojban usage contrasted with English: Upper and lower cases

utterance

expressing relation to discourse: Discursives

utterance ordinal

lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

utterance pro-sumti: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series

stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling

utterances

non-bridi: Questions and answers

uy diphthong

in cmevla: cmevla

V

V

as a symbol for a single vowel: Introductory

vague abstraction: Minor abstraction types

vague abstractions

place structure: Minor abstraction types

vague abstractor: Minor abstraction types

vague relationship

modal tag for: Modal tags: BAI

valid speech

marking as error with jo'a: Miscellaneous indicators

variables

logical: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables

vector

components of: Vectors and matrices
definition: Vectors and matrices

vector indicator: Vectors and matrices

terminator for: Vectors and matrices

vectors

use as operands: Vectors and matrices
use of parentheses with: Vectors and matrices

veljvo

symmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo

verbs

brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla

very: Special mekso selbri

veterinarian: Ordering lujvo places.

vice versa: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

English

expressing with vo'a-series pro-sumti and soi: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

virtue

example: Attitudinal modifiers

vocative phrase

effect of position on meaning: The syntax of vocative phrases
elidable terminator for: The syntax of vocative phrases
explicit quantifiers prohibited on: The syntax of vocative phrases
forms of: The syntax of vocative phrases
implicit descriptor on: The syntax of vocative phrases
implicit quantifiers on: The syntax of vocative phrases
purpose of: The syntax of vocative phrases
with complete sumti: The syntax of vocative phrases
with sumti without descriptor: The syntax of vocative phrases

vocative phrase terminator

elidability of: The syntax of vocative phrases

vocative phrase with name

placement of relative clause on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases

vocative phrase with selbri

placement of relative clause on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases

vocative phrases

as a free modifier : The syntax of vocative phrases
relative clauses on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases

vocative word

phrase following: The syntax of vocative phrases

vocatives

and definition of English "you": Vocative scales
contrasted with "la": Vocative scales
definition: Vocative scales
grammar overview: Vocative scales
notation convention symbol "X": Vocative scales
quick-tour version: Vocatives and commands
rationale for redundancy: Vocative scales

voiced consonants

contrasted with unvoiced in allowable consonant pairs: Initial consonant pairs

voiced/unvoiced consonants

restrictions on: Consonant clusters

vowel

buffer: Buffering of consonant clusters

vowel buffer

contrasted with y sound: Buffering of consonant clusters

vowel pairs

contrasted with diphthongs: Vowel pairs
definition of: Vowel pairs
grouping of: Vowel pairs
involving y: Vowel pairs
list of: Vowel pairs
use of apostrophe in: Vowel pairs

vowel-initial words

necessity for pause before: Rules for inserting pauses

vowels

contrasted with consonants: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

definition of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants

length of: Buffering of consonant clusters

pronunciation of

quick-tour version: Pronunciation

VV string

as a symbol for a double vowel: Introductory

W

walk to market: Conversion of simple selbri

want to be a soldier: The syntax of abstraction

wash self: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series

weapon against self: Dropping the prenex

went and bought: Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection

what is your name: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo

when: Tense questions: cu'e

when else: Tense questions: cu'e

when/where/how: Tense questions: cu'e

where: Tense questions: cu'e

whether criminal: Truth-value abstraction: jei

whole time interval

expressing: Interval properties: TAhE and roi

window: The six types of logical connectives

wine-dark sea: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour

word classes: Introductory

word forms

as related to grammatical uses: Introductory
in Lojban (see also morphology): Introductory

word quotation

as morphologically valid: Quotation summary
internal grammar of: Quotation summary

words not in the dictionary: Some words used to indicate selbri relations

wrong concept: Dependent places

X

X-ray: rafsi

x1

in place structure notation: Introductory

notation convention

quick-tour version: Some words used to indicate selbri relations

x₃: Subscripts

xₐ,ₑ: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

xₖ: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

Y

y

considered not to be a vowel for morphological discussions: Introductory

letter

between letters of consonant pair: brivla
prohibition from fu'ivla: fu'ivla

use in avoiding forbidden consonant pairs: Consonant clusters

y sound

contrasted with vowel buffer: Buffering of consonant clusters

y-hyphen

and consonant cluster determination: lujvo
and stress determination: lujvo
use of: lujvo

yes/no questions: Miscellaneous indicators

quick-tour version: Questions

yielding the floor: No more to say: FAhO

yon

as archaic English equivalent of "tu": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series

you

defining: Vocative scales

you're welcome

"fi'i" contrasted with "je'e": Vocative scales
"je'e" contrasted with "fi'i": Vocative scales

you-cmavo

example: lujvo based on pro-sumti

you-talk

example: lujvo based on pro-sumti

younger: Comparatives and superlatives, Comparatives and superlatives

Z

z

"z" instead of "'" in acronyms names based on lerfu words: Acronyms

zbalermorna

non-standard Lojban orthography: Oddball orthographies

zero

relation to negation boundary: Negation boundaries

zero to one: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso

Zipf's Law: Considerations for making lujvo