Re: [lojban] What's the current situation with Chomsky's grammar for Lojban?

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Despite your remark, Linguistics still seems to live pretty much in the '70s.  The details of theories have been worked through more thoroughly, the relative prominence of different approaches have shifted (without any being obliterated -- Social Science are hard to tell from Philosophy sometimes) and the mechanical implementation of techniques has vastly improved.  But there are still just item-and-process and item-and-arrangement vying with one another.  Unification grammar, despite its name, doesn't seem to be either holistic nor a blend of the two approaches, but rather an elaboration of the Chomskian theme.  (Note: I haven't delved into recent detail much, so this may be off base by some considerable degree.  But, if it is, the jargon has become terribly misleading.)

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From: Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] What's the current situation with Chomsky's grammar for Lojban?

From a linguist's viewpoint, in today Linguistics, chomskyan grammars
are has-been.

They are supeseded by unification grammars.

And maybe, in some more years, cognitive grammars will render
unification grammars obsolete.

You still live in the 70's ?

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