From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jun 04 11:26:54 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21025 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2000 18:26:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Jun 2000 18:26:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 4 Jun 2000 18:26:53 -0000 Received: (from cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13654; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006041853.OAA13654@locke.ccil.org> Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar To: rpc@myself.com Date: Sun, 4 Jun 100 14:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <20000603223222.A300@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> from "Richard Curnow" at Jun 3, 0 10:32:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Richard Curnow scripsit: > Having had another day to think about this, I think John's suggested > modification to grammar.300 provides more generality than is actually > required to fix the problem. True. > I believe the minimal change needed is to redefine term<83> to look like > this : > > term<83> = sumti | tag /NUhI/ sumti | tag /KU#/ | FA # (sumti | /KU#/) | termset | NA KU # > > i.e. make it optional to insert nu'i between a tag and the following > sumti. That works, but it creates two entirely separate functions for "nu'i": 1) starts a termset, with elidable terminator "nu'u", 2) optionally joins a tag to a following sumti. (BTW, "nu'i" is not really elidable here, since elidability is a terminator property; rather it is optional.) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions