Re: [engelang] Logos Initiative

 

Jorge Llambías 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.