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".