[B-Greek] Diagramming tools: Linguistic Tree Constructor
Ulrik Petersen
ulrikp at hum.aau.dk
Wed Jun 29 15:42:14 EDT 2005
List,
At the end of May 2005, there was a discussion on B-GREEK about
diagramming tools. I include two messages from the discussion below.
I'd like to briefly pick up the thread again.
The "Linguistic Tree Constructor" was mentioned. It is a program for
drawing linguistic trees, and has a homepage here:
http://ltc.sourceforge.net/
I am the author of LTC, so if anyone has any experiences with the
program -- good or bad -- I'd appreciate knowing about them. Also
bugreports are appreciated :-).
LTC was written specifically with Greek in mind. It even comes with a
copy of Maurice Robinson's parsed and lemmatized Westcott-Hort text,
downloadable from the website above and usable with the program. That
said, LTC in its present form supports analysis of almost any language.
LTC uses simple, easy-to-learn-and-use point-and-click methods to help
you draw the tree. It is mainly intended for linguists, but theologians
could also benefit immensely from using LTC to analyze the Greek text.
As someone pointed out in the discussion at the end of May, there is a
difference between:
a) on the one hand using the computer as a tool in doing the analysis
*yourself*, and
b) on the other hand using the computer to display the analysis that
*someone else* has already done for you.
LTC falls squarely in camp (a), since it will do no analysis for you --
you are free to construct the tree in any way you wish, even ones that
do not make much linguistic sense. This can be seen as a stength or a
weakness depending on your perspective.
As I said, I'd appreciate hearing from people who have used LTC. Please
use the forums if applicable:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=131689
Regards,
Ulrik Petersen
------------------------ Original message from Robert J. Fuller
------------------------
I have been looking for such software - for about 4 years. I have been
working with SSA for over 20 years - by hand. The diagramming add-on in
Logos can be used to do this, if you know what your are doing in the first
place. However, the only benefit this has over had-written is legibility.
There is no decision making capability in the Logos software. If they are
currently working on a real SSA capable add-on, then it will be useful
indeed.
SIL has some software that is freeware that comes close. It constructs
linguistic trees of various types. Hence its name - Linguistic Tree
Constructor. I just found it recently, and cannot comment on its utility in
my situation (pastoral), but I suspect it is useful for linguistic field
work. I will need to work with it some to be able to know how helpful it
will be.
I have always appreciated the more traditional diagramming techniques. I
agree that Semantic Structural Analysis sometimes deals in interpretive
areas. However, I have found it very helpful in having to analyze the
relationships, and verbalize what I mean, between clauses, phrases,
sentences, and paragraphs.
If Logos is working on this, I for one am waiting.
Bob Fuller
New Ulm, MN
Always Forward >> Philippians 3:13,14
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