[Lingtyp] What do glossing labels stand for?

[William Croft]

Exactly.

Bill

On Jan 26, 2016, at 1:11 AM, Sebastian Nordhoff <sebastian.nordhoff at glottotopia.de> wrote:

> Dear list,
> - a language-specific category is a concept with a label chosen by the
> linguist.
> - the label is in principle arbitrary.
> - for mnemonic reasons, a label evocative of the concept being described
> is normally used.
> - since some labels are rather long, it is convenient to abbreviate them.
> - some abbreviations have several plausible expansions (SUPerlative,
> SUPeressive, SUPine)
> - a standardization of the match abbreviation-long label is therefore
> useful for disambiguation purposes. This is what the Leipzig glossing
> rules do in my opinion
> - the Leipzig glossing rules therefore match abbreviations with common
> concept labels. An author using a Leipzig gloss does, however, not
> assert any relation between the morpheme being glossed and a comparative
> concept however defined (beyond the mnemonic usefulness).
> 
> Best wishes
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> On 01/25/2016 09:27 PM, Östen Dahl wrote:
>> Here is a question that I would like to pose to the members of the ALT list. If we accept the distinction between "descriptive categories" and "comparative concepts", what do the labels we use in glossing example sentences stand for - in particular, the labels defined in the Leipzig glossing rules? I have some thoughts about this myself but would like to hear what others think first.
>> östen
>> 
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