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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
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)
- present in most logical languages
- 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
- Ad-hoc predicate composition
- Serial predicates
- the embedding of one predicate's structure inside another
- Compound metaphors
- predicate apposition as modification of one predicate's meaning by the other's
- Lojban has a highly developed appositional tanru grammar
Numbers and counting
- Representation
- Numerals as a part of speech
- numbers constitute a separate grammatical class
- Composition
- Usage
References
- ↑ http://toaq.org/#compound_predicates
- ↑ https://mw.lojban.org/papri/X-1#Morphology
- ↑ https://lojban.github.io/cll/4/3/
- ↑ http://toaq.org/#serial_predicates
- ↑ http://www.jfcarter.net/~jimc/guaspi/acmpaper.html
- ↑ https://mw.lojban.org/papri/User:Gleki/turtau
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://lojban.github.io/cll/18/2/
- ↑ http://toaq.org/#numbers
- ↑ https://lojban.github.io/cll/6/6/