quick reference

ReferenceThe joiners

Across a sentence boundary, the discourse markers take over: whekai for the redirect, thelao for the conclusion drawn.

ReferenceWorking rules

• nela, thona, and sola join comparable structure only: noun with noun, verb with verb, clause with clause.
• A list of three or more sounds nela at every boundary.
• nela claims together and nothing else; sequence takes the sequence frames, and cause takes lao or thelao.
• thona keeps both sides asserted; the expectation it overturns is the speaker's framing, sayable another way.
• sola leaves the fork open; exclusivity, when it matters, is stated in its own sentence.
• we reaches back to an established alternative and stands at the outer edge of exactly what it adds: before the subject for a new participant, before the verb for an added action.
• A contrast inside one thought takes thona; a turn that redirects the line takes the period and whekai.
• Coordinated clauses keep their own tense, negation, and particles, and an established subject may drop in the second clause as anywhere else.

ReferenceVocabulary in this pamphlet

ReferenceCross-references

• Manual chapter 17 owns the doctrine
• Manual chapter 18 for whekai, thelao, and the other discourse markers
• The adverbial-clauses pamphlet for the relator frames and the same one-sentence-or-two choice; the three-slots pamphlet for we among the Slot 2 particles; the counting pamphlet for nela between arithmetic operands
• Validate any Phi you write with python3 scripts/validate_examples.py

Three conjunctions, one particle, and the period: with these, a sentence can hold companionship, surprise, choice, and arrival, each relation wearing its own word. The day comes at you together, and now the grammar does too.