Re: afterthought logical connection

[Colin Fine <C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK>]

My immediate thought was, as you suggested, stick in
a "ke'e" and let the grammar invent the "ke" retrospectively.

I thought about a solution which looped round in the grammar
so that one of the options for tanru-unit was "selbri-3 KEhE",
but I suspect that this is not only not LALR(1) but is not
even LALR(n).

I then thought about introducing an elidable terminator on some
selbri-n, but that doesn't help either, because in the example
'sampymau binxo' is a selbri-3, but you want to make it into
a selbri-5 in order to be able to joik-jek it.

So I'm also stuck. It seems to me that we can make sense of
shoving an afterthought ke'e in (but note that we will have
little freedom as to the scope - it will have to go back to the
start of the selbri, or maybe the start of the selbri-3), but
I can't see a way to get the grammar to accept it.

Elidable initiators anybody? zo'osai

Colin