Re: S7 grammar in a nutshell (long)

Henrik:
> Hi!
>
> And Rosta <a.rosta@...> writes:
> > You could, like Livagian, use alternate case frames as a kind of
> > polysemy-generating device.
>
> I just remembered that I translated from Livagian in the fifth conlang
> replay.
In that case, Henrik, I owe you an apology. I was really impressed
by how well you coped with that translation, & I thought you did
a splendid job. But at some point I got it into my head that it
had been done by Christian Thalman, so all this time he has been
(unwittingly) basking in your glory!

> Don't be angry, but it appears a bit, errrm, sarcastic to me
> that you question the processability of S7... :-))))
Livagian *looks* difficult, because its grammar is entirely laid
bare. There is no element of "... and in all other respects,
the grammar works just as in other languages, so I won't bother
explaining (or fathoming) how it works". It's as if you wanted
a manual on how to drive a car, and instead got a manual that
also explains in every detail how the engine works.

At any rate, Livagian is in fact very easy to process. It is
completely unmbiguously parsable with no lookahead and no
backtracking. That means that you process left to right, one
word at a time, and as you process each word you know exactly
how it fits into the sentence tree, without the need to ever
revise structures built up to that point.

--And.