14.10. Multiple compound bridi

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

Example 14.60.

nelci

.djan.

gi'e

nelci

.martas.

gi'abo

nelci

.meris.

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

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

Example 14.61.

mi	dzukla	le	zarci
I	walk-to	the	market

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

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

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

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

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

Example 14.62.

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

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

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

is equivalent in meaning to:

Example 14.63.

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

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

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

Example 14.64.

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

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

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

Example 14.65.

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

is equivalent in meaning to Example 14.50 .

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

Example 14.66.

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

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

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

Example 14.67.

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

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

Example 14.68.

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

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

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

Example 14.69.

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

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

Example 14.70.

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

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