PEG Morphology Algorithm
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:11:07AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:41:17AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > I think this is all it takes:
> > >
> > > cmavo <- !cmene !gismu !lujvo !fuhivla cmavo-form / digit
> >
> > No, they need to be PA, not just cmavo:
> >
> > Morphology pass: text=( CMAVO=( cmavo=( digit=( 1 ) ) )
> > CMAVO=( cmavo=( digit=( 2 ) ) ) CMAVO=( PA=( digit=( 3 )
> > )) )
>
> Right, the problem is that PA is followed by space or consonant,
> not by digit, so PA should end &(space / consonant / digit).
> Probably every &(space / consonant) should be changed to that.
>
> post-word <- &(space / consonant / digit)
Can't do that, sorry. A non-terminal must contain at least one
non-& and non-! element. Removed the & from post-word, changed all
calls to it to be &post-word.
> > > I thought about replacing:
> > >
> > > stressed <- comma* AEIOU
> > >
> > > with:
> > >
> > > stressed <- comma* ?????
> > >
> > > and making the corresponding changes in the letter
> > > definitions, and adding:
> > >
> > > letter <- comma* A-Z
> > >
> > > BY <- Y space-chars* BU / &cmavo ( j o h o / ... / x y / z y
> > > / letter ) &(spaces / consonant)
> > >
> > > but I guess that would be too revolutionary for some people.
> >
> > I don't understand what this would do?
>
> Use caps to represent lerfu, and use an acute mark on vowels to
> represent stress.
Aaah. The acute marks come through as ?, which should explain well
enough why I oppose this. 
I'm sure I could figure out how to view them properly, but that's
not the point: until nothing but X (where X is probably Unicode) is
the sole accepted option for all computer-based text, we need to
stick to ascii.
-Robin