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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: gaia, linguistics
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- [Avery Andrews 930127.1000]
- Bill Powers (930126.0830)
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- Your description of `gaia failure' is pretty much how I heard the onset
- of diabetes described once.
-
- As for linguistics, what the grammars are supposed to do is define
- a set of constraints, to which others can be added. What these
- constraints do is give you a limited number of OK pairings of overt
- strings (utterances) and semantic structures. Then their can be additional
- constraints added, such that the structure be one involving a
- certain overt string (that's parsing) or semantic structure (that's
- production). So I don't really see what the problem is in general
- terms, tho the specifics are obviously a mess, & I think the notion
- of `semantic structure' is especially dubious (but have no coherent
- ideas about what to replace it with).
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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