Re: [stack] Lojban (was: cabbages and kings)

Daniel Ehrenberg scripsit:

> In fact, most modern linguistic theories (Minimalism, Government &
> Binding, Lexical-Functional grammar, or any other one I can think of)
> don't hold that natural language is even context-free. There's too
> much stuff to be checked (for example, case and pronouns) for this to
> be possible. But maybe this is off-topic.

Human language is not context-free, but the counterexamples are few:
most languages are context-free, and the ones that sometimes aren't,
are still context-free most of the time.

Here's Shieber's 1985 paper nailing down the non-CF-ness of Swiss
German: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85.pdf

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