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Re: Self-segregating morphology again - in simpler terms, with list of methods

From:Taka Tunu <takatunu@...>
Date:Monday, April 17, 2006, 19:10
Kamu yupama hakewa taitiriwa pune wi? Tehe yupama namiwa pine kana rati
yunaitepe naruwa taikotuwa kame kana tuma?

(Translation : Could you write an example? Does it mean that some sounds are
reserved to encode such instructions?)

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Rosta <and.rosta@...> wrote:
Date: Mon Apr 17, 2006  6:16 pm
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Jim Henry, On 17/04/2006 17:58:
> Maybe it would make sense to collect a list of methods > for self-segregation. I'm thinking about this a lot lately > because I want my next conlang to have such a feature.
My conlang, Livagian, has unambiguous syntax parsed incrementally with no lookahead, and it cuts the Gordian knot of self-segrating morphology by extending the input to the syntactic parser to the level of the syllable (or potentially the segment). As each syllable is read in, the syllable is looked up in the lexicogrammar, resulting in one of the following sorts of instruction to the parser: (a) Subordinate the incoming syllable to the syllable that follows it. (b) Access the lexical entry corresponding (i) to the incoming syllable, or (ii), if the incoming syllable is the root of a chain of syllables linked by process (a), to the syllable chain rooted in the incoming syllable. Follow the instructions of the lexicogrammar to link the incoming syllable to a previous node or to a following node.
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