From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 16 12:09:33 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg4uw-0006Ud-G2 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:14 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.233]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg4un-0006T2-6Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:14 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so46173wra for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C3zbcP5uFwfl07w0ShtD/62gM9TKLx7PNWlIH/8pReEFyv8Q7ADcfEFsPJhtzLxO8HQDsoMQiU3fjKLSK6ubHxpUzWXIToYFB5gqzVVCUZOzLfGzq1PBFdFGyT0pLbJj93dvvGwASf//DY1vSWVB1g7Q0RmXR61PxeFWXGDbfnY= Received: by 10.54.93.4 with SMTP id q4mr83083wrb; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.126.17 with HTTP; Tue, 16 May 2006 12:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560605161209u7bb18713hd55888d35a32d77c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:09:01 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: X-bar, chomsky and lojban In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <57995.192.94.94.105.1147732061.squirrel@www.thebranchhearth.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 11568 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 5/16/06, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 bill@thebranchhearth.net wrote: > > 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. Lojban's PEG grammar is context-free and handles terminators, no? (zoi quotes are handled with a hack though). mu'o mi'e xorxes 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.