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<h3><a id="s15" name="s15">15. Logical and non-logical connection of modals</h3>
<p>Logical and non-logical connectives are explained in detail
in <a href="../c14/s1.html">Chapter 14</a>. For the purposes of
this chapter, it suffices to point out that a logical (or
non-logical) connection between two bridi which differ only in
a modal can be reduced to a single bridi with a connective
between the modals. As a result, <a href="#e15d1">Example
15.1</a> and <a href="#e15d2">Example 15.2</a> mean the same
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<a id="e15d1"
name="e15d1">15.1)</a> la frank. bajra seka'a le zdani
.ije la frank. bajra teka'a le zdani
Frank runs with-destination the house.
And Frank runs with-origin the house.
Frank runs to the house, and Frank runs from the house.
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<a id="e15d2"
name="e15d2">15.2)</a> la frank. bajra seka'a je teka'a le zdani
Frank runs with-destination and with-origin the house.
Frank runs to and from the house.
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Neither example implies whether a single act, or two acts, of
running is referred to. To compel the sentence to refer to a
single act of running, you can use the form:
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<a id="e15d3"
name="e15d3">15.3)</a> la frank. bajra seka'a le zdani
ce'e teka'a le zdani
Frank runs with-destination the house
[joined-to] with-origin the-house.
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<p>The cmavo ``ce'e'' creates a termset containing two terms
(termsets are explained in <a href="../c14/s1.html">Chapter 14</a>
and <a href="../c16/s1.html">Chapter 16</a>). When a termset
contains more than one modal tag derived from a single BAI, the
convention is that the two tags are derived from a common
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