Eric, Obviously I can't speak for anybody else, but I could use some examples to illustrate what you mean.
On 19 Jun 2010 at 6:55, Eric Inman wrote: > Here's why I think word order can be a problem. It's true that if > you have > multiple word orders then you can define multiple rules. If you have > a unit > of speech where the next-level components can occur in different > orders, > then providing the multiple rules to represent the different orders > is not a > problem. > > Where I think there might be a problem is when you have two or more > units of > speech whose components are intermingled with each other and can > be > intermingled in many different ways. It's true that you can still > define > multiple rules to handle this situation, but the problem is that the > number > of rules required to represent all of the permutations can get out > of hand. > At this point it appears that a generative grammar ceases to be a > useful > model for describing the language, and I think there are probably > other > models that would be more useful. I think this situation arises in > Greek but > I don't know if it would arise in Hebrew. > > I think whether or not this issue is premature would depend on > whether or > not this is already known to be a problem in Hebrew. If it is, then > bringing > it up now might allow people to avoid repeating steps that have > already been > taken and instead move more directly to seeking a better approach > to > handling what would be a known problem. > > What do you think? Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
