[Corpora-List] Help Regarding Cognates Identification

[Padmini priyadharsini]

Hi Eric,

I mean to say the cognates have similar root words in different languages.

I heard from one of my friend that cognates are historical origin
words. Like let say "greek origin", "Latin origin" of words. Those are
cognates.

I do consider all the named entities are cognates and  also the words
which has the similar root across languages.

The above things are my understanding of cognates. If there is any
misconception in my understanding, kindly clarify it.

Thanks,
Padmini

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Eric Atwell <csc6ea at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> Padmini,
>
> could you clarify what you mean by "cognates" ??
>
> Google "define: cognates" gives several alternatives:
>
>  "words that have a common etymological origin"
>  "having the same ancestral language; 'cognate languages'"
>  "similarly spelled and/or pronounced words of different languages that
> have similar meanings"
>  "words related in language"
>
>
> Eric Atwell,
>  Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
>  Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
>  TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468  WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Padmini priyadharsini wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Kindly let me know the availeble tools and used techniques for
>> cognates identification.
>>
>> I will be summarizing all the reply to the list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Padmini
>>
>>
>
> --
> Eric Atwell,
>  Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
>  Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
>  TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468  WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
>



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