Re: A Language built around a novel grammar
| From: | Harold Ensle <heensle@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 22, 2006, 16:27 |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:20:45 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
>Please see my other post for examples -- I do understand that you can
>use your operators on clause level, but my question is how you mark,
>e.g., that the operator does not work on the next word, but on the
>next clause.
Yes, this is an issue. I found that starting the clause was not too
difficult and could be done with the open class (in Ankanian "va" and
"la", two fully inflected open class words). BUT the problem was,
how does one know when the clause has ended??
As far as I know, no natural language resolves this issue specifically.
However, I did not want this ambiguity so I bit the bullit and added
an unclassifiable word "em" which not only is not open class, but is
not even an operator. It is just "}".
Harold