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And Rosta scripsit: > I haven't read anything significant of Yngve's. He's a pretty marginal > & rather atavistic figure in linguistics. I don't mean that derogatorily. > But what you say here would square with what I know of Yngve's ideas, > since I understand him to view grammar as formal patterns inducible > by statistical means. The first attempt to formalize Loglan used Yngve's notation (but AFAIK no other ideas of his), before the discovery of YACC and Chomsky Type 2. Oddly, Chomsky's grammar hierarchy (type 3 regular, type 2 context-free, type 1 context-sensitive, type 0 anything goes) has been extremely important in computer science, much more so than in linguistics. -- It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Into offering the slightest apology http://www.reutershealth.com For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953)