[Lingtyp] Should we include original scripts for examples in typological publications?

[JOO Ian]

Dear Christian,

Usually for Arabic/Hebrew it would be Arabic/Hebrew + Latin + gloss, where only the Latin transliteration is aligned per gloss.
For example (in LaTeX) it would look like this.

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Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\usepackage{gb4e}

\begin{document}

\begin{exe}
\ex
\textarabic{أنا من كورية}
\gll 'ana min kūrīya\\
I from Korea\\
\glt `I'm from Korea.'
\end{exe}

\end{document}

Regards,
Ian


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JOO, IAN
准教授
Associate Professor
小樽商科大学
Otaru University of Commerce



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제목: Re: [Lingtyp] Should we include original scripts for examples in typological publications?


Lehmann's website on Morphological glossing deals with this topic:

https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/ling_meth/ling_description/representations/gloss/index.php?open=l1_representation

A problem arises with the matching of an orthographic representation running from right to left, say, a Hebrew or Arabic one, with a transcription and morphological gloss  in a language - typically, English - that uses a left-to-right script. Lehmann only mentions the use of number superscripts as a prop, but otherwise does not mention this particular problem, probably because he had no handy solution to offer. Ideas welcome.

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