Searching across tiers

[Leonid Spektor]

Erin ,

    Try this command:

    combo +t%mor +t%xgra +s"%*:^*^v|*^*^!*|SUBJ" *.cha

The part "%*:" means start searching after the first dependent tier. The
part "^*^" means skip any number of word. The part "v|*" means much verbs.
Verbs are also represented by "aux|", so if you want to include those in
search as well, then replace "v|*" with "(v|*+aux|*)". And part "!*|SUBJ"
means not subjects. The "!" symbol means "not". So, to searching for both v|
and aux| use this command:

    combo +t%mor +t%xgra +s"%*:^*^(v|*+aux|*)^*^!*|SUBJ" *.cha

Leonid.

On 17-03-10 12:20, "Erin Quirk" <capricha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to search for combinations across two tiers- %more and
> %xgra- but I have been having difficulty. What I need to search for is
> the presence of the category verb on the morphological tier in the
> absence of a subject on the grasp tier. The discussion in the CLAN
> manual (pg. 66) is of a cross-tier combo search for words on the CHI
> tier matched with tags on the %spa tier.  The string that the manual
> indicates for this search is:
> 
> combo +s(want^to^*^%spa:^*^$INI*)+(neat^*^%spa:^*^$CON*)
> +t%spa +f +d sample.cha
> freq +swant +sto +sneat sample.cmb
> 
> The thing is that for this search, one only needs to specify that the
> %spa tier be added given that CLAN by default would search on the
> speech tier for the combination want^to.  I, on the other hand, need
> to specify that CLAN should search on 2 tiers, %mor and %xgra. Can
> anyone help me with this? I've tried many permutations of the template
> above and to no avail.
> Thank you.
> Erin Quirk
> CUNY Graduate Center


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