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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am a bit hesitant to get into this discussion, since I am afraid of opening too many cans of worms, but since Christian mentioned my earlier work with this methodology, I would like
to point out at least one thing: the size of the undertaking, if we understand it as ‘</span>a standard list of "comparative sentence meanings"<span lang="EN-US">’, as Martin suggests</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">. The questionnaires
from the EUROTYP project that Christian referred to go back to the general questionnaire on tense and aspect that was the basis for Dahl (1985). The latter contained about 200 sentences. The questionnaires from EUROTYP, which each concern one specific tense-aspect
category (future, perfect, and progressive) are on average 100 sentences long. I think it is difficult to get adequate results with much shorter questionnaires – there are just too many possibilities that have to be covered, and having just one example of
each phenomenon is very risky, you may not at all get what you are looking for. (Also, my EUROTYP contained about ten people working together for five years – obviously, not all the time was spent on the questionnaires, but it gives an idea of how much work
it involved.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dahl, Östen. 1985. Tense and Aspect Systems. Oxford: Blackwell. (<a href="https://www2.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/recycled/Tense&aspectsystems.pdf">https://www2.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/recycled/Tense&aspectsystems.pdf</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="SV">Från:</span></b><span lang="SV"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>För </b>Christian Lehmann<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 9 maj 2021 11:59<br>
<b>Till:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Ämne:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] A list of 50 basic sentences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just another methodological observation: If the method involves an automatic analysis of morphological glosses, you have to control the glossing method.<br>
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For instance, your gloss<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.SG be.1.SG.PRES in DET house</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">uses DET, supposedly 'Determiner'. This means that some of your glosses (like SG) identify a particular value of a morphological category (number, in this case), while others (like DET instead of DEF) identify an entire category. Your project
presupposes that you be consistent in this. See:<br>
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<a href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/gloss/index.php?open=class_member">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/gloss/index.php?open=class_member</a><br>
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Christian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann<br>
Rudolfstr. 4<br>
99092 Erfurt<br>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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