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RE: [engelang] Engelangs - A Design Goal Catalog



pc:
>   . The rules for getting from the lexicosyntactic 
>   structure to the logical structure have not been created 
>   yet. (I exaggerate slightly: the grammar does yield predicate-
>   argument structure, but not much beyond that.) 
> 
> Is there much beyond that?  At least one notion of logical form is 
> just that of (a very moderately extended) first order predicate logic. 

I agree. Besides pred-arg structure, there is variable binding
and scope relations. I think that suffices.

[You might want to subsume scope into pred-arg structure, treating
operators as predicates, but Lojban doesn't do that.]

--And.