<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you. Honestly, your explanation was exactly what I was looking for. I was unaware that one may use commas to combine two specifications when searching. I can see that on the list (freq +sm command +return) there are commas used to that effect, but thank you for demonstrating their function. Seeing examples of what-goes-where in coding (with clear explanations as to why) is really useful to people like myself who are unfamiliar with it, so thank you! </div><div><br></div><br><br>On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:58:30 UTC, Leonid Spektor  wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Harry,<div><br></div><div><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><br></div><div>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">worked</font>" has %mor form <font color="#ff2600">"v|work-PAS</font>T" and word "<font color="#ff2600">went</font>" has %mor tier form "<font color="#ff2600">v|go&PAST</font>". </div><div><br></div><div>You want to find all child speaker's verbs that are also in past tense, so your command would be:</div><div><br></div><div>freq +sm|v*,-PAST +sm|v*,&PAST +t*CHI +u *.CHA</div><div><div>
<br><br>Leonid.

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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 12, 2019, at 10:26, 'Harry Caulton' via chibolts <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="m8F-dOcYBAAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">chib...@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto"><br></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;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="auto">Would anyone be able to assist me here? Many thanks in advance for your time.</div></div><div><br></div>

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