<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Harry,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You need to understand the meaning of code symbols used by +sm option first. To get a full listing look in the CLAN manual or type "freq +sm" in Commands window, press return key.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The codes you are interested in are part of speech denoted by "|" symbol and PAST that can be denoted by either "-" or "&" symbols. Those symbols come straight from the words on %mor tier. For example word "<font color="#ff2600" class="">worked</font>" has %mor form <font color="#ff2600" class="">"v|work-PAS</font>T" and word "<font color="#ff2600" class="">went</font>" has %mor tier form "<font color="#ff2600" class="">v|go&PAST</font>". </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You want to find all child speaker's verbs that are also in past tense, so your command would be:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">freq +sm|v*,-PAST +sm|v*,&PAST +t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div class=""><div class="">
<br class=""><br class="">Leonid.
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 12, 2019, at 10:26, 'Harry Caulton' via chibolts <<a href="mailto:chibolts@googlegroups.com" class="">chibolts@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">I am attempting to isolate verbs by morphological type in the Brown corpus starting with the past tense. I have found that using:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">freq +sm|*v - t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">It allows me to isolate verb stems and all morphological suffixes. However, when I change this code to:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">freq +sm;*v,|-past - t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">I get 0 results. Which is confusing as I've added the marker for regular past tense morphology which should logically yield all regular past test verbs. I've reread the CLAN and MOR manuals but I cannot seem to find anything related to where to place the relevant information in the code.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" dir="auto" class="">Would anyone be able to assist me here? Many thanks in advance for your time.</div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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