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Re: [lojban] X-bar, chomsky and lojban



coi bil.

I can't say so for certain, but it seems quite likely that it does. I can't think of any grammatical parts that don't break up into two smaller pieces eventually leading to a specifier/adjunct/complement plus a head.

Based, of course, on my limited understanding of the theory from Wikipedia and some knowledge of grammar. My other clue is in the formal definitions of the language. I can't seem to find the original website it's from anymore anymore, but the dictionary I have lists out what parts combine how in a structure that could be pretty easily broken down into a tree. I can email out the PDF if anyone's interested. CLL has a grammar that's more formal and quite a bit less readable.

http://www.xahlee.org/lojban/hrefgram/chapter21.html

mu'omi'e .aleks.


On May 15, 2006, at 6:27 PM, bill@thebranchhearth.net wrote:

Hello All,

Does anyone know if the Lojban grammar is consistent with the X-bar theory
put forth by Chomsky.

As far as we know, all natural languages are consistent with X-bar at the
deep structure level.

Regards,
Bill