Re: unnatural languages

Herman Rubin:

Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
EVERYTHING in human language that isn't a proper name is a variable.

Do you include verbs, adjectives, adverbs? And at most,
these are highly restricted variables. The brevity of the
notation is important. How would YOU use human language
to disambiguate

He gave him his toy.

Human language hardly conveys any meaning by itself. There are those
linguists that don't even recognise a semantic layer between grammar
and pragmatics.

JSL.

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