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On 5/16/06, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> 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


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