Tagging
Peter Kirk
prkirk at pmbx.net
Sun Dec 15 00:37:06 EST 2002
I suspect that the answer here is to stick strictly to the rule "tag
only what is written, not what is meant!" In other words, tag forms,
rather than meanings, according to some kind of code like A, MP1, MP2 as
used on this list. And then in cases (e.g. traditional "deponent" verbs)
where there is a clear mismatch between form and meaning you can do what
I think you have done in the latest version of the Hebrew morphology
database (especially for jussives): add an encoded note that the meaning
is active, or middle, where the form would suggest something different.
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Dale M. Wheeler [mailto:dalemw at multnomah.edu]
> Sent: 14 December 2002 01:00
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Middle and Passive Aorist and Future forms
>
<snip>
>
> BTW, I started to convert the GRAMCORD database to "deponent this" and
> "deponent that" many moons ago, but ran into these kinds of problems
and
> realized that there were some serious problems in doing that...not
only in
> the conflict between form and function, but also in what is
communicated
> to
> the user about "deponency" [as you noted above]....so I stopped.
Bernard
> and I are wrestling with this same thing in the MorphLXX right now,
where
> its even worse (eg., APOKRINW occurs). I'm not sure what the ultimate
> result will be for the MorphLXX and for the GRAMCORD MorphGNT...but
I'm
> open to suggestions, since somehow the morph tags need to represent
the
> form if at all possible, but when the form is ambiguous, there needs
to be
> some way for users (esp., beginners in Greek) to be able to find all
the
> uses without being led astray by the results.
>
<snip>
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