[Lexicog] FLEx?

[Nicholas Thieberger]

FLEx is software from SIL:
http://www.sil.org/computing/fieldworks/flex/

There's a review of version 4.0.1 in the Language Documentation and Conservation Journal here:
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/June2007/techreviews/butler.html


At 8:35 AM +0000 4/10/07, Dr. Jon Mills wrote:
>What is FLEx?
>Jon Mills
>
>--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, John Roberts
><dr_john_roberts at ...> wrote:
>>
>> I am preparing to transfer my Amele dictionary into FLEx from
>Toolbox.
>> Where should I place subcategorization information in FLEx? For
>example,
>> Amele verbs can be marked for direct object agreeement, indirect
>object
>> agreement or oblique object agreement (e.g. benefactive /
>malefactive).
>> Different verbs have different possibilities of object agreement
>marking
>> and I have these properties indicated against each verb such as
>[+DO,
>> -IO, +OO]. I am thinking they should be part of the part of speech
>> field, \ps in Toolbox. But I need a subcat field under \ps to
>record the
>> different subcat features. If I just code them all as \ps, e.g.
>>
>> \ps v
>> \ps stat (stative verb)
>> \ps med (medial verb)
>> \ps [IT] (iterative verb)
>> \ps [-DO, -IO, ?OO]
>>
>> Then this is not correct, as I want to have the subcat features
>under
>> 'verb' not the same status as 'verb'. I also don't want to do it as
>>
>> \ps v, stat, med, [IT], [+DO, -IO, ?OO]
>>
>> because again this puts all these distinguishing categories on the
>same
>> level as 'verb'. It also makes it more difficult to pick them out.
>For
>> example, how would I pick out all the stative verbs?
>>
>> Verbs are the main lexical class with multiple subcategories, but
>> inalienably possessed nouns can also be divided into various
>> morphological and semantic subcategories. I would like to have all
>this
>> information coded into my Amele dictionary. The Collins COBUILD
>English
>> dictionary has all this kind of information for English. I would
>like to
>> do the same for Amele.
>>
>> John Roberts
>>
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>> ********************
>> John R Roberts
>> SIL International Linguistics Consultant
>> dr_john_roberts at ...
>> ********************
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