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Re: Ungrammatical examples in CLL



On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:10:00AM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 08:36 AM 2/1/03 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:25:37PM +0000, Martin Bays wrote:
> > > Further to the problems with prenex-connective interaction -
> > >
> > > 16.10.5:
> > >       roda zo'u mi prami da .ije naku zo'u do prami da
> > >
> > > and 16.10.6:
> > >       su'oda zo'u mi prami da .ije naku zo'u do prami da
> > >
> > > do not parse. Try them on jbofihe. You can use ge...gi instead, and
> > > that seems fine, but (as I mentioned the other day) it looks like you
> > > can't have individually prenexed sentences connected in afterthought.
> > >
> > > Damned annoying, if you ask me.
> >
> >For the record, jbofi'e has been shown to have errors before.
> 
> They parse correctly in the official parser.

This is because the official parser uses an outdated version of the
BNF.  Jbofi'e is right---it is ungrammatical in the newer grammar.
(Which really sucks, btw.)

-- 
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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