On 12/12/2003 12:52, Philippe Verdy wrote:
...
the lexical entries of the
language itself, which are clearly not infinite)
Not sure about this one. There is may be no finite bound on the number
of lexical entries, at least for languages which permit more or less
arbitrary compounding, like German, or in English for words created to
encode organic chemical formulas.
...
It could be even longer if ever a script is created to encode organic
chemical formulas, which have a complex layout of combining sequences.
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