Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tFYyG-0000ZTC; Wed, 15 Nov 95 05:57 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 49E6D694 ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 4:57:12 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 22:55:56 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: splitting PA into multiple selma'o X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 666 Lines: 16 And: >* Split PA up into several selmao. OK. I'll bite. The definition of a selma'o is that it have a distinct grammatical (not semantic) role. We have kept PA as one selma'o because we truly could NOT figure out any substructure grammar that was applicable. At one time we DID have an attempt at a substructure grammar - trying to build core numbers with prefixes and suffixes but 1) it wasn't even close to LALR(1), and 2) we kept finding things we wanted to say that violated the assumption that the numbers were central and the modifiers secondary. So even I am interested in what you would have in mind - not as a serious proposal, of course %^). lojbab