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Re: [jboske] Nixon Prenexes (was: fundamentalism as fundamental (RE: Re: gadri paradigm:2 excellent proposals



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
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sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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