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=== Syntax === | === Syntax === | ||
==== Predicates and their arguments ==== | |||
* Sentence functions | |||
*; Predicate–argument | |||
*: predicates, together with arguments, form predications; both must be present (at least implicitly) | |||
*:* <code>see(man, cat)</code> | |||
*; Predicate–variable | |||
*: predicates only accept variable labels as terms; these, in turn, can be bound by quantifier expressions and restricted with subsequent predicate clauses | |||
*:* <code>∃xy[man(x) ∧ cat(y) ∧ see(x, y)]</code> | |||
*:* [[Xorban]] | |||
*; Predicate | |||
*: no arguments are exposed; predicates are implicitly connected with quantified variables | |||
*:* <code>man₁ = see₁; see₂ = cat₁</code> | |||
==== Numbers and counting ==== | ==== Numbers and counting ==== |
Revision as of 22:29, 24 March 2020
Modular Language Architecture
This section will explore how a language could be broken down into modules.
Module Breakdown
- Phonotactics
- Different rules for how a phonology can be assembled into words.
- Writing System
- Structure, Syntax, and Semantics
- Vocabulary
- Provides set of non-core/non-syntactic/non-structural words with defined meanings
- Not attached to specific phonological forms
- Different vocabulary module instances could incorporate different philosophies
- e.g. world view for constructing composites:
- Have a word for 'tooth', or have a compound like 'mouth-stone'?
Module Hierarchy
- Morphology
- Written
- Writing System
- Verbal
- Phonotactics
- Phonology
- Phonotactics
- Written
- Vocabulary
- Structure, syntax, semantics
The contents
This part of the document is a draft. -- Uakci (talk)
Morphology
- Self-segmentation strategies
- Continuation marker
- certain feature or features of a syllable is used to determine if it is a continuation of the previous word
- Word length marker
- the first syllable of each word determines how long the word is
- Initial consonant cluster
Syntax
Predicates and their arguments
- Sentence functions
- Predicate–argument
- predicates, together with arguments, form predications; both must be present (at least implicitly)
see(man, cat)
- Predicate–variable
- predicates only accept variable labels as terms; these, in turn, can be bound by quantifier expressions and restricted with subsequent predicate clauses
∃xy[man(x) ∧ cat(y) ∧ see(x, y)]
- Xorban
- Predicate
- no arguments are exposed; predicates are implicitly connected with quantified variables
man₁ = see₁; see₂ = cat₁
Numbers and counting
- Representation
- Numerals as a part of speech
- numbers constitute a separate grammatical class
- Lojban (the selma'o (grammatical class) PA)
- Numbers as predicates
- numbers are cardinality predicates (‘x₁ is three in number’ etc.)
- Composition
- Concatenation
- values are expressed as a sequence of digits in positional notation
- Lojban: pa re ci vo mu (lit. ‘1 2 3 4 5’) denotes the number 12,345
- Usage
- As quantifiers
- numbers attach to terms and scope over the sentence, signifying how many values of the term satisfy the sentence
- Lojban: pa da (lit. ‘one something’) = ‘there exists exactly one thing that…’