Abstract
This chapter discusses the Yerkish language and its automatic parser. Yerkish is an artificial language that was designed for the specific purpose of exploring the linguistic potential of nonhuman primates. It was designed under a number of constraints, both theoretical and practical. In what follows, the author tries to show as to which aspects of the language were determined by these initial practical constraints and as to which by the theory underlying its design. The chapter discusses word signs (lexigrams), the meaning and grammatical classification of word signs, combinatorial patterns, the parsing system, and a brief application of the concept of grammaticality to a sample of Lana's output.
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