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Hello! What languages do you know which declare the subject as one of its goals or which has it as a property? What languages have BNF, or EBNF, or their analogues? It is generally called `logical language', but I don't like the term, because it's quite broad. The advertisment of your own languages is welcome too.

First: Welcome! Have some pickles and tea! (It's a tradition for welcoming new members here. Usually another user with the user name mèþru does this instead of me. Sorry, mèþru!)

And to try to answer your question: English?

He was given a gift.

English is obviously ambiguous. In the phrase `Red roses and apples' - are apples red?

That's not an example of ambiguity for subject-marking though. You want the classic "Fruit flies like a banana" instead (bananas and fruits in general are able to fly, why do you ask?).

But if you do mean syntactic ambiguity in general, then it's hopeless with natural languages. You want a logical language like Lojban instead.

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Thank you for the meaningful answer. Since the question is in the Conlagery & Conworlds I think it's clear I'm looking for conlangs. For the record, lojban has PEG and a special version of BNF. I am interested in other such conlangs too, if any.

Obligatory XY problem avoidance: why do you want to find them? Do you have a goal in mind?

In responce to lojbans complexity I have created several conlangs with the subject and now I research how others did it and in what way differently. Maybe my approach has flaws I'd find worth fixing before I get the shame of publishing my stuff here.

Well, it means that you have less chances to make jokes. Ambiguity makes for easy jokes.

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I don't think so, because it's not about semantics. It's about uniquely parsing 1-dimensional array also known as the text into the abstract syntax tree. One can still play with the polysemy.

I must say that in the nearly 10 years I've been here you're the first person interested in logical conlangs that I've seen coming here. This is actually more of an artistic conlang forum. I have no idea where the logical conlang people hang out though.

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There's a small enclave on the CBB but apart from that I have no idea either. I imagine it's probably a bit like the auxlang community: the ones who get behind already existing projects tend to stick to the language-specific forums while those who try to create new projects don't tend to talk much because they can never totally agree on anything while they avoid the artlangers because differing objectives.

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Holy cow! Everything was first once. Actually CBB users pointed me to Gua\spi and Toaq, and I'm going to study these for a while. If there's more such conlangs, please let me know.

It isn't, I'm afraid. If people never talked about natlangs here, I'd never post in this section at all.

Huh? Sindyr has a whole lot of posts in C&C Quickies for their conlang, which while not explicitly stated, is basically an attempt at a logical conlang (and people have even pointed them to the various logical conlangs that are already hanging about). To the point where at first I thought this thread was just them creating a second account to continue spreading the Gospel of Reason.

OK, I'm new here. What's the relevant section? Languages & Linguistics? C&C Quickies? Could mods please move the thread to the place it belongs?

No, I'm not saying it's in the wrong section, and I realize you're new; that's why I'm saying all this in the first place. I'm just saying that it isn't obvious without further specification that you specifically meant conlangs. This would be true no matter which section of this forum this thread was in.

From quick reading I failed to find the description of Sindyr's conlang, and others mentioned don't feature the subject, e.g. Laadan. I acknowledge that my hobby is unlikely going to interest anyone.

Thank you. I admit I haven't been reading Sindyr's threads, since the English-y first version(?) of the conlang was off-putting...

We the people of the ZBB just happen to be almost exclusively artlangers. Have you tried joining the CONLANG-L email list and sending a message to them asking about people who are interested, and have made, logical conlangs? There is quite a number of people in that mailing list, and there might be someone.

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