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

[Christian Lehmann]

This is what my website says, too. The question remains how we identify 
items of the first line with items of the second line.

Am 15.11.2025 um 17:08 schrieb 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.
>
> original-BF94F0FC-C427-4A41-BEC9-644E64F4357C.jpeg
> 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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> *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 
> <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.
>
> -- 
>
> Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann
> Rudolfstr. 4
> 99092 Erfurt
> Deutschland
>
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Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann
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