31-03-2018, 07:40 PM
My point was that when contemplating scenarios, we need to bear in mind that small functors may be confused with homographs and syllables.
So when examining Italian, we need to have some clear rules about the word e. We need to understand that it is always delimited by spaces, is almost never sentence final, and cannot be modified by a diacritic. Furthermore, it can be substituted by a different word (Ed) when preceding a vowel initial word.
Without having the rules in place, any attempt to extract semiotic meaning from e would be doomed to failure.
So when examining Italian, we need to have some clear rules about the word e. We need to understand that it is always delimited by spaces, is almost never sentence final, and cannot be modified by a diacritic. Furthermore, it can be substituted by a different word (Ed) when preceding a vowel initial word.
Without having the rules in place, any attempt to extract semiotic meaning from e would be doomed to failure.