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| + | We are not making any assumptions, so gloss everything--no defaults! | ||
| + | * This is mainly to make search easier and more intuitive. If we had, for instance, “animate” as the understood default person and only glossed inanimate morphology as such, it would be very difficult to get a datalist of all animate words. Having no default glossing means that all our glosses will be very explicit and therefore easy to search. | ||
| + | * This will be painful at the start, but once we have enough data in there, LingSync will do autogloss and make our lives much easier! Hang in there. | ||
| + | * If you have an affix that affects the category of the word to which it attaches, mark the original word's category as well as that of the affix. (ie: 'plamu' \'salmon.AN\' and 'plamu-ei' \'salmon.AN-of.IN\') | ||
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| + | When in doubt, don’t parse it out! | ||
| + | * We're trying to avoid making null morphemes unless there's very very strong evidence for them. | ||
| + | * Feel free to use dots frequently in your glosses. You might see morpheme glossing happening like the following, and that's fine: stem-VTA.3>2.NEG.IND | ||
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| + | In general be faithful to the surface form. | ||
==New Datum Fields== | ==New Datum Fields== | ||
Revision as of 08:45, 31 January 2013
'being updated constantly, stay tuned'
We are not making any assumptions, so gloss everything--no defaults!
- This is mainly to make search easier and more intuitive. If we had, for instance, “animate” as the understood default person and only glossed inanimate morphology as such, it would be very difficult to get a datalist of all animate words. Having no default glossing means that all our glosses will be very explicit and therefore easy to search.
- This will be painful at the start, but once we have enough data in there, LingSync will do autogloss and make our lives much easier! Hang in there.
- If you have an affix that affects the category of the word to which it attaches, mark the original word's category as well as that of the affix. (ie: 'plamu' \'salmon.AN\' and 'plamu-ei' \'salmon.AN-of.IN\')
When in doubt, don’t parse it out!
- We're trying to avoid making null morphemes unless there's very very strong evidence for them.
- Feel free to use dots frequently in your glosses. You might see morpheme glossing happening like the following, and that's fine: stem-VTA.3>2.NEG.IND
In general be faithful to the surface form.
New Datum Fields
Current:
- utterance
- morpheme
- gloss
- translation
Proposed:
- utteranceType: this field allows users to specify whether the Datum is a lone word such as NOUN or VERB, or a full SENTENCE or a STORYPART.
- contender for a tag as well, rather than a Datum Field.
- utteranceNumber: this field allows users to number a Datum to fit within a story, such as 1/20, 2a/20, 2b/20 etc.
- NOT contender for a tag
- conjugationType: this field allows users to specify whether a verb is of the first conjugation, second conjugation, etc. (helpful for users who are learning Mi'gmaq and want to find more straightforward patterns.)
- contender for a tag as well, rather than a Datum Field.
Tags used
right now we don't have tags in operation, but this may change. If you want to make arguments for or against tagging, please go to the discussion side of this page.
Current:
Proposed:
Abbreviations
(following Leipzig Glossing Conventions)
| ABBREVIATION | terminology | notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | third person (inanimate) | |
| 1 | first person | |
| 12 | first person inclusive ('we (me & you)') | |
| 13 | first person exclusive ('we (me & another)') | |
| 2 | second person | |
| 3 | third person (proximate, i.e. 's/he') | |
| 4 | third person (obviative, i.e. 'her/his mother' | |
| ABSN | absentive | |
| ADV | adverb(ial) | |
| AN | animate | default form (assumed if animacy not indicated) |
| ANTIP | antipassive | |
| APPL | applicative | |
| BEN | benefactive | |
| CAUS | causative | |
| CLF | classifier | |
| COMP | complementizer | |
| COMPL | completive | |
| COND | conditional | |
| CONJ | conjunct | |
| COP | copula | |
| DECL | declarative | |
| DEM | demonstrative | |
| DIR | direct | |
| DIST | distal | |
| DISTR | distributive | |
| DU | dual | |
| EMPH | emphatic | |
| EXCL | exclusive | |
| EXT.PL | extended plural | (provisional term contrasting with SG, DL, PL, to mean a number equivalent of 'multitude') |
| FOC | focus | |
| FUT | future | |
| IMP | imperative | |
| IN | inanimate | |
| INCL | inclusive | |
| IND | indicative | default form (assumed if mode not indicated) |
| INF | infinitive | |
| INST | instrumental | |
| INT | intonation | |
| IPFV | imperfective | |
| IMPS | impersonal | |
| IRR | irrealis | |
| LOC | locative | |
| N- | non- | |
| NEG | negation, negative | |
| NMLZ | nominalizer, nominalization | |
| OBJ | object | |
| OBL | oblique | |
| OBV | obviative | see obviation |
| PART | particle | |
| PASS | passive | |
| PFV | perfective | |
| PL | plural | |
| POSS | possessive | |
| PLP | pluperfect | |
| PRF | perfect | |
| PRES | present | default form (assumed if tense not indicated) |
| PROG | progressive | |
| PROH | prohibitive | |
| PROX | proximal, proximate | default form (assumed if 3rd person not marked as obviative) |
| PST | past | |
| PURP | purposive | |
| Q | question, question marker/particle | |
| QUOT | quotative | |
| RECP | reciprocal | |
| REFL | reflexive | |
| RES | resultative | |
| SBJV | subjunctive | |
| SG | singular | default form (assumed if number not indicated) |
| SUBJ | subject | |
| SUBV | subordinative | |
| TOP | topic | |
| VAI | intransitive verb with animate subject) | |
| VII | intransitive verb with inanimate subject) | |
| VOC | vocative | |
| VTA | transitive verb with animate subject & animate object | |
| VTI | transitive verb with animate subject & intransitive object |