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BPFK Section: Erasures

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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:01:22PM -0500, Rob Speer wrote:
> How do you define "the same selma'o" without requiring
> memorization of a whole bunch of lists of cmavo? It's not "can be
> interchanged grammatically in any context", because we know there
> are distinct selma'o that are grammatically equivalent.

Not if xorxes has his way. :-)

It's worth noting that switching to a same-world rule would
dramatically increase the parser's context sensitivity, and possibly
slow it down quite a bit. This isn't an argument as such, just
mentioning.

-Robin