TECH: Narrative connectives?

[Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>]

I was just thinking...

Logically connected sentences

  (1) mi nelci ti .ije mi nelci ta
      mi citka .ije mi pinxe

can be conveniently shortened to

  (2) mi nelci ti .e ta
      mi citka je pinxe

However, there is no way to shorten a straigth narrative

  (3) mi nelci ti .i mi nelci ta
      mi citka .i mi pinxe

in a similar way. Sometimes it would be quite natural and
convenient to be able to say, e.g.

  (4) *mi nelci ti gi ta
       I like this  ... and that

      *mi citka gi pinxe
       I eat   ... and drink

Here {gi} is a new type of non-logical connective, a narrative
connective. It builds loose compounds which don't fit well
into the set of existing non-logical compound types.
({i} can be thought of as a narrative sentence connective.)

This structure could then be expanded to handle afterthought
comparisons (as I proposed in an earlier posting)

  (5) mi nelci ti .isemaubo mi nelci ta
      -> *mi nelci ti gisemaubo ta

(still using the {gi} which Jorge wouldn't like to have :_)
and tense relationships within tanru (not presently allowed)

  (6) mi citka .ibabo mi pinxe
      -> *mi citka gibabo pinxe

which would be especially useful in certain descriptions

  (7) *le sipna gisemaubo cikna
      *le zukte giba'obo pensi

Presently there doesn't seem to be any (easy) way to express
these!

  co'o mi'e veion

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.i mi du la'o sy. Veijo Vilva sy.
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