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Re: [engelang] Logos Initiative





On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, And Rosta and.rosta@hidden.email [engelang] <engelang@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Let me essay a fuller but still short and simplified account.

All words are predicates (except magic zoi-like words).
Each predicate is inflected to show which of its argument places are saturated implicitly and which explicitly (by merger with another argument place (of another predicate)).
For the first word of the sentence, all explicitly saturated argument places (ESAPs) are added to a virtual list.
For the next word, for each of the word's ESAPs the word is inflected to
(a) show which ESAP on the virtual list it merges with, with the merged ESAP removed from the virtual list, or
(b) show which ESAP on the virtual list it merges with, with the merged ESAP left on the virtual list, or
(c) show the ESAP does not merge with any ESAP on the virtual list, and is added to the list
And so on, iteratively, for each next word. The sentence ends when the virtual list is empty.

A complication is that besides intersective merger (for a things that is red and is a door, say) I also have joi-like additive merger (for a thing that consists of xorxes and And, say).

I was thinking about this last part and I can't figure out a way of doing "red door and blue doorknob" with just the four predicates. Is there some sort of restriction that prevents the use of the two merger types on the same virtual list item?

mu'o mi'e xorxes