Saturday, November 22, 2014

Challenge to Chomsky from a Latinist

ille mi par esse deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem


This sentence IS grammatical in Latin.

Now, how do you parse that with a tree diagram? If you feel it is too long, abbreviate:

IMPEDV,I,SFE,SD,QSAITSEA.*

Now, parse!

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bpi Georges Pompidou
St Cecily
22-XI-2014

Wikibooks : The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/51
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_of_Gaius_Valerius_Catullus/51


*I obviously mean : IMPEDV,I,SFE,SD,QSAITSEADR.

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