From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 15 20:31:08 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 15 May 2006 20:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FfqGp-0001tR-LU for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 20:30:51 -0700 Received: from ns3.accuratewebhosting.com ([66.98.156.22] helo=srv14.accuratewebhosting.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FfqGm-0001tD-2A for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 20:30:51 -0700 Received: from www.thebranchhearth.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by srv14.accuratewebhosting.com (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4G1fuQ9003392 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 20:41:56 -0500 Received: from 192.91.75.30 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user bill@thebranchhearth.net) by www.thebranchhearth.net with HTTP; Mon, 15 May 2006 20:41:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <29965.192.91.75.30.1147743716.squirrel@www.thebranchhearth.net> In-Reply-To: References: <57995.192.94.94.105.1147732061.squirrel@www.thebranchhearth.net> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:41:56 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [lojban] Re: X-bar, chomsky and lojban From: bill@thebranchhearth.net To: lojban-list@lojban.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-archive-position: 11555 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: bill@thebranchhearth.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list coi aleks, Thanks much for the link and your insights. I will look into it further as time presents itself. Regards, Bill > coi bil. > > I can't say so for certain, but it seems quite likely that it does. I > can't think of any grammatical parts that don't break up into two > smaller pieces eventually leading to a specifier/adjunct/complement > plus a head. > > Based, of course, on my limited understanding of the theory from > Wikipedia and some knowledge of grammar. My other clue is in the > formal definitions of the language. I can't seem to find the original > website it's from anymore anymore, but the dictionary I have lists > out what parts combine how in a structure that could be pretty easily > broken down into a tree. I can email out the PDF if anyone's > interested. CLL has a grammar that's more formal and quite a bit less > readable. > > http://www.xahlee.org/lojban/hrefgram/chapter21.html > > mu'omi'e .aleks. > > > On May 15, 2006, at 6:27 PM, bill@thebranchhearth.net wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> Does anyone know if the Lojban grammar is consistent with the X-bar >> theory >> put forth by Chomsky. >> >> As far as we know, all natural languages are consistent with X-bar >> at the >> deep structure level. >> >> Regards, >> Bill >> >> > > > 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. > 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.