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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Mike Maxwell
[mailto:maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, 12 March 2004 6:41
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<DIV><TT><BR>> Given that Korean adjectives are used in one basic form when
acting as<BR>> predicates and another basic form when modifying, I was
thinking that<BR>> I should come up with at least a sample phrase, though
not<BR>> necessarily a sample sentence for each.<BR><BR>Maybe, but an
alternative would seem to be just to talk about this in your<BR>grammar.
(Obviously ICO Korean, there are a bazillion grammars "out there",<BR>and they
probably already talk about this. But for many of the readers of<BR>this
list, the grammar they write will be the onliest grammar of
the<BR>language. Even if not, it is not uncommon to include a sketch
grammar in<BR>the dictionary, perhaps emphasizing the morphology.)
Again, while a couple<BR>three example sentences would be appropriate in the
grammar, I don't see the<BR>need to have example sentences (or even example
phrases) in the dictionary.<BR><SPAN class=776071421-14032004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=776071421-14032004><FONT color=#0000ff>As an aside
comment, the brief grammars in dictionaries often seem faulty to me. I was
using or trying to use my New College Latin & English Dictionary the other
day to trace some nouns. Even though it has lots of noun tables, there are no
explanations on how to figure out which declension a noun belongs
to.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=776071421-14032004> </SPAN><BR>> I like the
suggestion of using a sample sentence such as "the dog<BR>> barks at X",
"the telephone rang/I answered the telephone" to inform<BR>> the user of
commonly used verbs, though the danger of falling into<BR>> cliches seems
real.<BR><BR>My off-the-top reaction to this is that the example sentences
here belong<BR>with the verb, not the noun. Seals bark, too, as do
children with the croup<BR>(and sometimes bosses). (I'm talking here
about printed dictionaries;<BR>electronic dictionaries are an entirely
different thing, since you can<BR>basically stick a concordance tool in
them.)<BR><BR><SPAN class=776071421-14032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>What do you think about a noun like spell (as in
witchcraft). For a beginner's dictionary, it seems like including
"cast a spell" might be appropriate in the noun entry.
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