Precodes and continuation markers

[Kevin Donnelly]

Hi Brian

::::On Sunday 11 December 2011 Brian MacWhinney said::::
>      This is a helpful observation.  For words like "ticket", you can add a
> feature to their lexical entry in MOR that marks them as borrowings.  In
> that case, you would code:
> *MAR:   pero el ticket es mil dólares.
> 
> That coding seems intuitively right.  Then you would be have to modify the
> Spanish lexicon to include a feature such as {bor eng} for the relevant
> words.  To get this feature to appear in the MOR output, you would the
> following line to the output.cut file:
> bor:
> 
> I think this is the right way to do this.  For consistent management, you
> can spot all such recent English borrowings in the current Spanish MOR and
> we can pull them out into a file called, for example, n-bor.cut.

Thanks for this - I'll put it in my set of notes on CLAN.  This approach 
wouldn't apply directly to us, though, since we're not using MOR.  Using a 
database means we can pick out sets of words directly from a monolithic 
dictionary (ie no need to segment it into word-types) in familiar grid format, 
and inject whatever tags we like into the output file.

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly
kevindonnelly.org.uk

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