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(Note: some internal CopVP structure was omitted for brevity.) | (Note: some internal CopVP structure was omitted for brevity.) X<sub>F</sub>P is an arbitrary convention for a phrase that terminates XP; see [https://github.com/toaq/zugai/issues/10 this] issue on the [[zugaı]] issue tracker for a deeper scoop. | ||
In fact it would not be far-fetched to remove terminators from a future version of Toaq in their entirety. This quote due to [[And Rosta]]: | |||
: I agree both that spoken parentheses (as they are described and conceptualized by the loglangs that employ them) are unnatural and that they can be reconceptualized as something more natural. What's less redeemable, I think, is the unnaturalness of the conditions on the so-called elidability of the terminators. As a loglanger I should hardly carp at unnaturalness, but I would at least want the conditions to be explicitly specified and demonstrated to be ergonomic. My introspective sense is that it's easy enough to insert/unelide terminators at a kind of editing and proofreading stage, a stage at which you tweak the text to avoid misparses by the reader, but not at the first stage of composition, nor easy to formulate the rules of elidability. | |||
== Avoiding terminators altogether == | == Avoiding terminators altogether == | ||
It | It usually suffices to place heavy constituents on the far right of a sentence, corroborating Toaq’s right-branching syntax, and if necessary move any interlopers to the [[topic]] (which is terminated by {{t|bı}} – but this terminator usage is fine because a topic phrase is not ''introduced'' by any particle). Here’s an example of these repair strategies in use: | ||
<blockquote><poem> | <blockquote><poem> | ||