Coding issues with isolation of verbal morphology

['Harry Caulton' via chibolts]

Hello,

Thank you. Honestly, your explanation was exactly what I was looking for. I 
was unaware that one may use commas to combine two specifications when 
searching. I can see that on the list (freq +sm command +return) there are 
commas used to that effect, but thank you for demonstrating their function. 
Seeing examples of what-goes-where in coding (with clear explanations as to 
why) is really useful to people like myself who are unfamiliar with it, so 
thank you! 



On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:58:30 UTC, Leonid Spektor wrote:
>
> Harry,
>
> You need to understand the meaning of code symbols used by +sm option 
> first. To get a full listing look in the CLAN manual or type "freq +sm" in 
> Commands window, press return key.
>
> The codes you are interested in are part of speech denoted by "|" symbol 
> and PAST that can be denoted by either "-" or "&" symbols. Those symbols 
> come straight from the words on %mor tier. For example word "worked" has 
> %mor form "v|work-PAST" and word "went" has %mor tier form "v|go&PAST". 
>
> You want to find all child speaker's verbs that are also in past tense, so 
> your command would be:
>
> freq +sm|v*,-PAST +sm|v*,&PAST +t*CHI +u *.CHA
>
>
> Leonid. 
>
> On Nov 12, 2019, at 10:26, 'Harry Caulton' via chibolts <
> chib... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> I am attempting to isolate verbs by morphological type in the Brown corpus 
> starting with the past tense. I have found that using:
>
> freq +sm|*v - t*CHI +u *.CHA
>
> It allows me to isolate verb stems and all morphological suffixes. 
> However, when I change this code to:
>
> freq +sm;*v,|-past - t*CHI +u *.CHA
>
> I get 0 results. Which is confusing as I've added the marker for regular 
> past tense morphology which should logically yield all regular past test 
> verbs. I've reread the CLAN and MOR manuals but I cannot seem to find 
> anything related to where to place the relevant information in the code.
>
> Would anyone be able to assist me here? Many thanks in advance for your 
> time.
>
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