Chapter 14: If Wishes Were Horses: The Lojban Connective System

22. Rules for making logical and non-logical connectives

The full set of rules for inserting “na”, “se”, and “nai” into any connective is:

Afterthought logical connectives (eks, jeks, giheks, ijeks):

Negate first construct:

place “na” before the connective cmavo (but after the “.i” of an ijek).

Negate second construct:

place “nai” after the connective cmavo.

Exchange constructs:

place “se” before the connective cmavo (after “na” if any).

Forethought logical connectives (geks, guheks):

Negate first construct:

place “nai” after the connective cmavo.

Negate second construct:

place “nai” after the “gi”.

Exchange constructs:

place “se” before the connective cmavo.

Non-logical connectives (joiks, joigiks):

Negate connection:

place “nai” after the connective cmavo (but before the “gi” of a joigik).

Exchange constructs:

place “se” before the connective cmavo.