Re: A Cornucopia of Questions... McReynolds Sun, 21 Dec 1997 09:31:38 -0600 -----Original Message----- From: Rob Zook To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 4:00 AM Subject: Re: A Cornucopia of Questions... >At this point and I think Saul agrees somewhat we don't feel quite ready >to make many additions. Marketa added a word a few days ago, for >father in her lovely short story. I personally don't want to make more >than suggestions, and I would hope that we can get Marketa to put her >"seal of approval" on what she agrees we should include in a new version >of the Lexicon. I definately understand and agree with this part of it. Oh, and I read the story with "father" in it. Quite nice! >As far as ideas go, we've had quite a bit of grammar ideas lately. >Before that Saul and I have been analyzing the corpus of the words in >the language now to try and work out the phonemic and morphemic rules. >I have forwarded a post of mine a while back which contained a summary >of all we've done till about 26 Nov. It also contains Saul's notation. > >Since then I have posted on my ideas to expand on the logic grammar and >the Temporal and Spatial,..,er, particles. If you lack those posts >I can forward them as well. I've got those, I think. >Well, it sounds useful. I don't remember the posting about indicating >different languages though. I do remember posting a short explanation >of the various linguistic notations I saw Saul using: // for phonemic >spelling, [] for phonetic, and <> to refer to a spelling convention. That's it. It wasn't languages, after all! ;-) My bad. >Currently, I'm working on trying to explained my previous suggestions >for the grammar for logical statements. > >If Saul hasn't left on his vacation yet, hopefully he will post about >anything I forgot. Okay. Thanks a lot! -McReynolds