[YG Conlang Archives] > [jboske group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
I just noticed an oddity in the grammar of sumti. The EBNF rule for
sumti-tail (what comes after a gadri) is:
sumti-tail-1 = [quantifier] selbri [relative-clauses]
| quantifier sumti
I expected it to be:
sumti-tail-1 = [quantifier] selbri [relative-clauses]
| quantifier sumti-6
where sumti-6 is an unquantified, not connected sumti. A sumti is more
general than sumti-6, it can be quantified and connected with other
sumti-6.
So the grammar allows things like:
lo ci (ko'a .e ko'e)
lo ciboi re broda
I could make some sense of {lo ciboi re broda} interpreting it
as {lo ci lo re broda}, but what is {lo ci (ko'a e ko'e)}?
mu'o mi'e xorxes
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com