On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:05:54AM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote: > > > The formal semantics mainstream answer, since 1974, has been to allow > > > prenexes mid-sentence, whether there is an embedded proposition thereor > > > not. > > > > Can you show us, with an experimental cmavo "zo'u", what mid-sentence > > prenexes would look like? It sounds ghastly complex. > > It requires grammar changes. One possible way would be to add a rule > to term, which allows creating a new subsentence: > term -> [all old term rules] | ZOhOI subsentence ; > Then you'd just start new subsentences wherever: > mi djica zo'oi da poi mikce zo'u da > > Or some such. > > I guess the idea is that that quantification is then subordinate > to the other quantifications. I don't fully understand how that > is supposed to help though. Note btw that doing it like such is a very very minor change to the grammar, so if Nick can better explain how it would be useful and how it solves this problem I would probably support it. -- Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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