NAI

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

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