[Lexicog] entry creation

[Lou Hohulin]

Bill, Nick, David and Ron, 

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions and comments. I had previously considered the null symbol, and thought I would give an explanation of the entry form in the front material in the section where I explain entry types and fields of entries.

Nick and David Tuggy: In your dictionaries, I'm assuming that in the reversal index following the gloss, the entry form would be shown. Is that right?

Ron Moe: Thank you for your discussion. Concerning users of the dictionary: A small number of copies of the dictionary will be printed for the Ifugao. The grammar sketch that I am preparing for the dictionary is a simplified shorter version of the 500+ page grammar that we have intended to be electronically published along with the full dictionary (including semantic domains). The grammar sketch for the printed copies includes a pronoun chart with a brief explanation of the useage of the forms.

Thanks again to all of you who took the time to help me.

Lou

On Wed, 30 May 2012 06:05:10 +1000
 Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>Yes, I also use the null (∅) for a 3sgO in South Efate, for glossing, and
>then remove it from the top line of the interlinear text for presentation,
>preserving it in the morphemic lines (see an example here:
>http://www.eopas.org/transcripts/33#t=17.1,22.573 - best played in Firefox)
>
>Nick
>
>On 30 May 2012 02:04, Bill Poser <billposer2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> That's an interesting question. Off the top of my head, perhaps the null
>> symbol: ∅ (U+2205)?
>>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Lou Hohulin <lou_hohulin at sil.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Have any of you on this list created an entry form for a null/zero
>>> morpheme? If so, what did you use as a canonical form?
>>>
>>> The third person, singular pronoun in Tuwali Ifugao clearly functions as
>>> a pronoun but has no evident form. The 'reference' of the zero pronoun can
>>> be cross-referenced by affixes, have either a subject or object grammatical
>>> relation with the verb and is in contrast to the use of other third person,
>>> singular pronouns. This information should be put within an entry, along
>>> with illustrative sentences so who on this list can give me suggestions as
>>> to what would be a logical, practical entry form.
>>>
>>> Lou Hohulin
>>>
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