BAI Modals
The BAI must be irregular overall; there's no single consistent pattern to them. But perhaps there's some families of behavior.
Column deletion can't work like with normal places. Suppose we have {broda bai zi'o}
; then we have no choice but to imagine it {broda}
in its rows.
But does that imply that {broda}
normally carries a {bai zo'e}
after
it? Hopefully not! We need another part of our zo'e convention to handle this.
Compounding the difficulty, some standard places are identified using BAI. For
example, tavla4 is effectively {bau}
. How do we unify these places
correctly while minimizing irregularity?
I think that there can't be general semantics for {fi'o}
. la xorxes'
definition merely says that somehow it adjoins one selbri onto another,
without regard for the implicit unification that happens in non-trivial
examples.
Specifying selected BAI
ckaji
A nice warmup to understand what we're about to do.
ro da zo'u:
da broda
------------ (kai-intro)
broda kai da
broda sekai da
======================= (sekai-intel)
lo nu broda ku ckaji da
I am confused and frightened. I am not really enjoying this. But okay.
ckini
Similarly,
ro da ro de zo'u:
da broda de
-------------
broda ki'i da
...Hm. I think that this is all wrong. The pattern had looked good before, but now we're dropping data. That's no good.
dunli
ro da ro de zo'u:
da broda de
-------------
broda du'i da
What's even going on.