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

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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