Off-topic: Mostly Latin (and some Greek) tools

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 23 10:32:41 EDT 2002


In the course of the recent thread entitled "De-Inflection Software"
(perhaps better described as "Verb-morphological-analysis software")
mention was made of some Latin tools. I just learned this morning of an
on-line tool, a "Latin Verbal "Parser" (PC) THis is an online Verbal
ending-identifier or Parser, in which you can enter any verbal ending of
the 473 posible forms, and it will give you a grammatical definition, and
an example with translation. ..." Although its database doesn't include all
the  verbs in any Latin dictionary, it DOES include all known/discernible
infixes and endings. That is an on-line program, but there is a
downloadable Mac program, "Latin Automatic "Parser" (Mac) A Form Finder in
a neat little 3 x 5 card, which will identify all grammatical functions of
noun and verb. You enter a complete, inflected Latin word just as you find
it in a text, and it finds all the possibilties, with an example." All
this, along with some other useful tools for Latin (and some even for
Greek) at William Harris' Middlebury site:

	http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/SubIndex/classics.sub.html

Worth noting, and perhaps justifying this message in terms of B-Greek
content, is Harris' "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Greek" at

	http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/GreekGrammar.html

I think this is very much worth viewing and studying for beginners of
Greek, especially in that it deals with matters of how to approach the
different elements to be learned. It's not the only set of Greek lessons
that does that, but too many Greek textbooks simply present the paradigms
and bid their memorization.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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