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tgvyesterday at 8:59 PM0 repliesview on HN

I don't think this is useful in complex situations/expressions. Structure has to be encoded in the same place as meaning somehow. Natural language does it by using an extraordinarily large set of signifiers. That's not feasible for a formal language.

You could of course affix all lemmata with structural information, as free word order languages do, but that's introducing syntactic structure via the backdoor.