3. Grammar¶
Human language is more that its grammar; it encompasses semantics, pragmatics, vocabulary, conventions, prosodics, phonology, and many other dimensions.
Similarly, the lect language is more than its grammar. However, the grammar is important, because it describes how most information must be structured.
3.1 Core Concepts¶
Lect is written as utf-8 text. When lect is stored in files have the ”.x” extension, the file is a compilation unit, and its contents must be fully described by the context-free lexical and syntactic grammars below.