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Re: How to write down a language design?

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 11:48
* Roger Mills said on 2003-12-02 18:20:53 +0100
> Taliesin wrote: > > One termpaper this fall will be "A core LFG grammar fragment of modern > > Basque", and I'm very much looking forward to writing it. > > LFG????
Lexical-Functional Grammar, yet another competitor to Chomsky & friends, but computer-friendly. It might be of interest as a way to describe a conlang, so I'll put up a webpage with a mini-intro and pointers, later. For now, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/ http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ I'd have preferred going to a uni that cared more for the languages than the frameworks, but here I am... t.