Re: a grammar sketch...

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> > > I visualize a cycle as a trinary tree (depth one) of 4
> > > trinary trees (of depth one)--a recursive structure.  If I knew more
> > > about real linguistics I would probably be able to quote Chomsky or
> > > something at this point.  :-(
> >
> > *waves sceptre of pedantry* That should be "ternary tree" not "trinary
> > tree" :-P  *ducks*
>
> *swings Greatsword of Pedantry*  "Trinary" and "ternary" are both acceptable.
(in a small voice)  I've seen both, but "trinary" came to mind more
quickly because it rhymed with "binary."

YHL