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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=812275902-12032004>How
about sentences with languages having declining nouns/adjectives? I'm thinking
in particular of Korean hiut and piup adjectives, which can be difficult to
conjugate (decline?) for the non-Korean speaker, though this would apply to
Latin, Japanese and perhaps many other languages as well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=812275902-12032004>Given
that Korean adjectives are used in one basic form when acting as predicates and
another basic form when modifying, I was thinking that I should come up with at
least a sample phrase, though not necessarily a sample sentence for each. In
Japanese, I think the sample phrase route might be best for -na adjectives
(keiyou doushi).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=812275902-12032004>I like
the suggestion of using a sample sentence such as "the dog barks at X", "the
telephone rang/I answered the telephone" to inform the user of
commonly used verbs, though the danger of falling into cliches seems
real.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=812275902-12032004>Another major concern I have is which social register
to use in example sentences. In Japanese, I can see providing all sentences in
plain form with the formal (desu-masu-cho) form immediately following in
parentheses, but Korean has six registers. My inclination is to provide only the
plain form (handa) with the formal (yo) form, but perhaps sentences with
honorifics or child-directed registers should be added for headwords that are
often used in such contexts...Recommendations, anybody?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=812275902-12032004>Benjamin Barrett</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Mike Maxwell
[mailto:maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu] <BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(4) Nouns, and to a lesser extent adjectives,
tend to have straightforward grammars and meanings. You don't need an
example sentence to know how to use 'dog' or 'rock'. (Abstract nouns
like the infamous 'destruction' are of course exceptions to
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