From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 16 10:49:32 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 16 May 2006 10:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg3fS-0003AS-RY for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:49:10 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg3fP-0003AL-Kc for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 10:49:10 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CFB9478A for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:48:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:48:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: X-bar, chomsky and lojban In-Reply-To: <57995.192.94.94.105.1147732061.squirrel@www.thebranchhearth.net> Message-ID: References: <57995.192.94.94.105.1147732061.squirrel@www.thebranchhearth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 11566 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, 15 May 2006 bill@thebranchhearth.net wrote: > Hello All, > > Does anyone know if the Lojban grammar is consistent with the X-bar theory > put forth by Chomsky. I am not very familiar with X-bar theory, but I doubt that zoi quotes or terminators can be captured in any grammatical framework that relies on having a context-free syntax. > As far as we know, all natural languages are consistent with X-bar at the > deep structure level. How about Swiss German, the prime example of context-dependency among natural languages? -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ The names of a species, empire, language, homeworld, homestar and so on will all be self-evidently related; Ogrons come from Ogros, Arisians come from Arisia, Arcturans come from Arcturus, and Humans no doubt come from Humus. --Justin B. Rye in A Primer In SF Xenolinguistics 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.