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Re: Tiny Grammar

From:charles <catty@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 17:26
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Edward Heil wrote:

> Personally, I suspect that there is in the real world only one rule of > grammar: integrated expressions (phonology) correspond to integrated > content (semantics). Everything else arises from the nature of the > units of phonology and semantics.
Nice statement. [about RuPiN ...] I have a nice URL: http://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm [Then, Nick said:]
> I like it a bit better than Allnoun in that it doesn't have those silly > parentheses, but I see the fact that the slots are all predefined as > perhaps a bit of a limitation.
How about affixing a tone to each word that has slots to fill? Then "aaa bbb1 ccc ddd2" would be something like "noun adj noun verb".