On 21 Jun 2010 at 8:20, James Christian wrote:
> > Ok. Any ideas how you would implement this such that the grammar > would not over generate? > Have you made any implementations of your scheme? James Christian As I said, the constraints you are talking about are in the semantic component. We can take a phrase like Chris Rice's famous song "Smell the Color Nine" and see that it's syntactically well-formed, but semantic nonsense. My dad used to jokingly use the phrase "Is you speaking to I?" This one is a little more problematic, but in a sense is still syntactically well-formed at a deep grammar level. It includes a subject, verb and preposition with object. But there are agreement and case problems, obviously. As I see it, those are surface level aspects, i.e. the clause becomes badly formed by filling the slots with deliberate mismatches: "You" in English takes a different form of the verb, and "I" in English is used exclusively as a nominative. Where such distinctions exist, they may or may not be part of the actual syntactic component of grammar; I haven't really thought that through yet. Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
