treament of circumfixes

[Bruno Estigarribia]

Thank you Leonid. So, are you saying that to have mlu count a circumfix 
as ONE morpheme instead of two, one MUST use the %mor tier, so mlu can 
put together the two occurrences of NEG? If so, does that happen 
automatically or does one have to give mlu particular instructions?
Thanks,
Bruno
> Bruno,
>
> MLU looks for the follow four characters to count morphemes: "-#~+”. I 
> addition the word itself is also counted as one morpheme. In you 
> examples “NEG#1s#walk-NEG” and "nd-a-guata-i" MLU would count 
> 4 morphemes, regardless of whether those words are on main speaker 
> tier or on %mor tier. I would however recommend coding Guaraní 
> language words on %mor tier, since you have to do it by hand anyway, 
> because the Spanish words will be coded on %mor tier and it is easier 
> to search and analyze the same kind of data if it is located in the 
> same place for all languages.
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 09:46, Bruno Estigarribia <brunilda at gmail.com 
> <mailto:brunilda at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I am analyzing a corpus of code-switching between Spanish and Guaraní.
>> While we prepare a better version using a %mor tier (mostly done by 
>> hand, obviously, since I don't think we have lib files for Guaraní 
>> :-) ), I have been doing some quick "old-style" morphemization on the 
>> main tier (which I believe will still work with MLU as long as I 
>> include the -t%mor switch, right?).
>> Then a question came up: how does mlu treat circumfixes? Example, the 
>> Guaraní negation nd-...-i as in:
>> nd-a-guata-i
>> NEG#1s#walk-NEG
>> "I don't walk"
>> I obviously don't want to count nd# and -i separately...
>> I couldn't find the answer on either the CHAT or the CLAN manuals, or 
>> on this list. Sorry if I've missed something!
>> Thanks!
>> Bruno
>>
>> Bruno Estigarribia
>>
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>> Literatures
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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