Return-Path: (Sendmail 5.61/1.07) id AA07601; Tue, 13 Apr 93 09:11:39 -0700 Message-Id: <9304131611.AA07601@julia.math.ucla.edu> Subject: Re: CAFE: cook (& busboy) sketch Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 09:11:38 -0700 From: jimc@math.ucla.edu X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 > Having passed the cafe material along to my friend Zoe Velonis, she penned > this. Comments will be passed on to her. Oooo, shame, shame! Not for the voluptuous purple prose, but for the organization error in your leader. Who passed it along? By the way, we have words for morphology, syntax and semantics, but what is the name of the level of language organization at which you made your error? One of the design principles of -gua!spi was to isolate these levels as much as possible. Such modularity makes machine processing of the language much easier. I have always used the term "organization" to refer to the phase of assigning referents to pronouns, and deciding which containing phrase a sub-phrase belongs in, but I would imagine that this word is much too vague and that there's a specific word commonly used for it. -- jimc