Re:A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages
by schoen on Saturday September 21, 2019 @10:05PM
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Thanks, that's really neat (and since I know Latin, the analysis made perfect sense to me).
I suppose that you could, for example, account for the different conjugations and declensions by saying that they are also features of noun and verb stems that have to agree with endings that want to bind with them, right? Like "vid-" and "-et" is not just "sees - S.3" but also something like "see [+2conj]" and "S.3 [+2conj]" allowing them to bind with each other, where "-at" might be "S.3 [+1conj]" so it could bind with "am-" being "love [+1conj]", while "-et" doesn't bind with "am-" (except when interpreted as a different lexical item that adds [+subjunctive] to a [+1conj] stem?).
My next question is whether there are tools to facilitate writing parsers with this framework because it makes me want to write a Latin parser and see how well it does (and maybe how many formal syntactic ambiguities exist in Latin texts that we might not even notice most of the time).
I suppose that you could, for example, account for the different conjugations and declensions by saying that they are also features of noun and verb stems that have to agree with endings that want to bind with them, right? Like "vid-" and "-et" is not just "sees - S.3" but also something like "see [+2conj]" and "S.3 [+2conj]" allowing them to bind with each other, where "-at" might be "S.3 [+1conj]" so it could bind with "am-" being "love [+1conj]", while "-et" doesn't bind with "am-" (except when interpreted as a different lexical item that adds [+subjunctive] to a [+1conj] stem?).
My next question is whether there are tools to facilitate writing parsers with this framework because it makes me want to write a Latin parser and see how well it does (and maybe how many formal syntactic ambiguities exist in Latin texts that we might not even notice most of the time).