syntax Posted by seryf on Wed 04 of Mar, 2009 23:21 GMT posts: 71 is there any lojbo who is familiar with syntax trees, x bar theory, and phrase structure rules enough to have mapped out any of that for lojban?
Posted by rlpowell on Wed 04 of Mar, 2009 23:48 GMT posts: 14214 On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:18:38PM -0500, thirderivative@aol.com wrote: > is there any lojbo who is familiar with syntax trees, x bar > theory, and phrase structure rules enough to have mapped out any > of that for lojban? Is there some way in which a formal grammar isn't a superset of all that? -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" — http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
Posted by seryf on Thu 05 of Mar, 2009 02:21 GMT posts: 71 i am not sure. but i do not know how helpful the two grammars in the cll are. i plan on looking at them again. someone familiar with syntax trees would be very helpful though, since we are doing that type of stuff in my class. ---Original Message--- From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> To: lojban-list@lojban.org Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 4:46 pm Subject: lojban Re: syntax On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:18:38PM -0500, thirderivative@aol.com wrote: > is there any lojbo who is familiar with syntax trees, x bar > theory, and phrase structure rules enough to have mapped out any > of that for lojban? Is there some way in which a formal grammar isn't a superset of all that? -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" — http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.