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Jorge Llamb�as jjllambias@hidden.email [engelang], On 02/10/2014 00:13:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, And Rosta and.rosta@hidden.email <mailto:and.rosta@hidden.email> [engelang] <engelang@yahoogroups.com <mailto:engelang@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
> 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?
I suspect I've not understood your question, so let me just give you a work through of that phrase: 1. Add Red1 to vlist 2. Intersective-merge Red1+Door1, leave on vlist 3. Add Blue1 to vlist 4. Intersective-merge Blue1+Doorknob1, leave on vlist 5. Additive merge Red1+Door1 & Blue1+Doorknob1 (leave on/remove from vlist) Step 5 would be marked as an inflection within the word with stem Doorknob, following the inflection corresponding to Step 4. --And.