Re: "Self-Segregating Syntax"?

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:03:19 +0200, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
wrote:
[snip]
>My experimental language X-1 not only has self-segregating morphology;
>the arity (number of arguments) of a predicate word is indicated by its
>length, it is always length minus 2.
>[snip]
>See:
>http://wiki.frath.net/X-1
>[snip]
Thanks.

I think the key new idea might be "the variable-based syntax", the
inspiration for which you credit to veritosproject.

It looks like there are the following three main ways to delimit the
phrases or other word-groups (some systems use more than one at the same
time);

1. Mark the beginning of every such group -- the group will then end just
before the next beginning-of-a-group at the same or a higher level.

2. Mark the end of every such group -- the group will then begin just after
the last previous end-of-a-group at the same or a higher level.

3. Encode the length of the group at one (or both) of its margins:  Either
3a At the beginning of every group; or,
3b At the end of every group;
or both.

Has anyone come up with any other ideas?  Or run into ideas someone else
has come up with?

Has anyone gotten any further than X-1 on any such scheme?  Or does anyone
know of any natlang or successful conlang (possibly someone else's) which
is more complete in this regard?

Thanks, Joerg.

(BTW: I admit I don't like X-1 much, but I think the orthography is my main
reason for not liking it; perhaps also the phonology.  In other words I
think I might like what you'd have gotten if you hadn't tried to make it a
briefscript.)

-eldin

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