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Re: [engelang] reformulating the core grammar

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:27 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: 

OK, I'm off to a conference for a few days -- giving a paper on the syntax--phonology interface, ironically! --, out of the country so maybe without unextortionately-priced net access, but when I get back I'll write out what I think the few rules of xorban syntax are. In the meantime, if Mike were to find the time to augment his BNF rules with some illustrative examples, I could see if I could do a syntax for that too, tho I am anticipating some problems with that.

--And.

Okay, what I did was to add a section called "BNF Notation Description" located half way down the page.  The section describes how to read and interpret EBNF notation as we have used it to define Xorban.  I have also provided productions & corresponding trees for a couple very simple example sentences.  I believe that this will be generally helpful to people who aren't too used to BNF-type production rules.

http://loglang.wordpress.com/xorban/grammar/

I could provide more examples and explanation, but first I would like your feedback on what I have written so far.

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co ma'a mke

Xorban blog: Xorban.wordpress.com
My LL blog: Loglang.wordpress.com