[Lexicog] Measure words

[Kenneth Keyes]

Tommaso, I don't have experience compiling Chinese dictionaries, though
I did study Chinese in China, and use Chinese dictionaries quite
frequently.   I think another linguistic term for measure word is
"classifier."  You might try looking in bibliographies under that term.
Wishing you success!
Ken

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Subject: [Lexicog] Measure words


Dear lexicographers,

is there anyone who has some experience in Chinese measure words or in
measure words in any other kind of language? Could you give me some
advice about preparing a dictionary of measure words? Could you suggest
some good dictionary to take as an example (I am going to write a
Chinese-Italian dictionary of measure words)?

Thank you

Tommaso Pellin


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You could try entering the double vowel combinations into the sort
order,
as a different character than the single vowels, but this may not help.
I
don't think there is any way if single vowels are valid characters,
to tell Toolbox never to interpret two vowels together as two single
vowels rather than one double vowel.

Although I would think if all the morphemes were in the lexicon, this
wouldn't be such a problem. Since Toolbox should prefer parses with
fewer
morphemes, this would favor matches with double vowel morphemes rather
than
splitting the double vowel in two.


Steve White, Jaars language software support
704-843-6337, 1-800-215-7813




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