[Lexicog] FLEx?

[Dr. Jon Mills]

What is FLEx?
Jon Mills

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, John Roberts 
<dr_john_roberts at ...> wrote:
>
> I am preparing to transfer my Amele dictionary into FLEx from 
Toolbox. 
> Where should I place subcategorization information in FLEx? For 
example, 
> Amele verbs can be marked for direct object agreeement, indirect 
object 
> agreement or oblique object agreement (e.g. benefactive / 
malefactive). 
> Different verbs have different possibilities of object agreement 
marking 
> and I have these properties indicated against each verb such as 
[+DO, 
> -IO, +OO]. I am thinking they should be part of the part of speech 
> field, \ps in Toolbox. But I need a subcat field under \ps to 
record the 
> different subcat features. If I just code them all as \ps, e.g.
> 
> \ps v
> \ps stat (stative verb)
> \ps med (medial verb)
> \ps [IT] (iterative verb)
> \ps [-DO, -IO, ?OO]
> 
> Then this is not correct, as I want to have the subcat features 
under 
> 'verb' not the same status as 'verb'. I also don't want to do it as
> 
> \ps v, stat, med, [IT], [+DO, -IO, ?OO]
> 
> because again this puts all these distinguishing categories on the 
same 
> level as 'verb'. It also makes it more difficult to pick them out. 
For 
> example, how would I pick out all the stative verbs?
> 
> Verbs are the main lexical class with multiple subcategories, but 
> inalienably possessed nouns can also be divided into various 
> morphological and semantic subcategories. I would like to have all 
this 
> information coded into my Amele dictionary. The Collins COBUILD 
English 
> dictionary has all this kind of information for English. I would 
like to 
> do the same for Amele.
> 
> John Roberts
> 
> -- 
> ********************
> John R Roberts
> SIL International Linguistics Consultant
> dr_john_roberts at ...
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>




 
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