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PEG Morphology Algorithm

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:27:54PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 20:46, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:36:31PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > The problem with doing it in PEG is that it appears to be
> > > impossible to check that a string matches two different PEs
> > > with the same number of characters matched for both. That's
> > > why every selma'o PE ends with checking for a space or
> > > consonant, even though "cmavo" already checked for that.
> >
> > 1. I have no idea what that has to do with the rest of the
> > conversation.
> >
> > 2. So what? It works quite well, you'll notice.
>
> In cmavo, yes. But when you consider lujvo and fu'ivla, especially
> lujvo with fu'ivla rafsi in them, you have to check whether the
> y-hyphens are necessary and whether something can be decomposed
> into rafsi with or without a consonant at the front removed, and
> the end of the brivla is marked, not by something simple such as a
> consonant, but by the stress, with an unstressed syllable (or two,
> if there's a 'y' present) after the stressed one.

Once again, I can't follow what you're saying. Clearly, you and I
think in different ways when it comes to this sort of thing.

I see no evidence that the current PEG grammar is doing anything in
a substantially incorrect fashion. If such evidence comes along,
I'll let you know.

-Robin