I'm forwarding to the lists a question about charting texts for an SOV
language. I've tried to translate the question into English, since there
are many more people on the English list than on the French one. I'm
afraid that I don't know all of the French linguistic terms, and so the
original question is included too. If you can't answer the question, but
could improve the translation please do so. I'll forward the replies on.

Original:
J ai commenc mettre un texte en tableau. Le langue est une langue
SOV, les propositions d pendantes se trouvant avant la principale, et il
peut y en avoir toute une ribambelle. Malheureusement, il n y a aucune
possibilit pour indiquer cela (ou alors je ne l ai pas trouv , toujours
possible), bien que cela soit pr vu pour les langues ayant la principale
avant les d pendantes, si je comprends bien (la traduction fran aise est
peu compr hensible pour cette partie dans la version 6.1, d'ailleurs).
Comme la mise en tableau des textes est l un des points forts de FLEx
mes yeux, j appr cierais beaucoup de pouvoir le faire de fa on optimale
pour les langues avec lesquelles je travaille. De plus, d apr s ce que
je sais, les langues verbe final sont au moins aussi nombreuses que
celes verbe non final, et le probl me se pose sans doute d autres
linguistes.

Translation with uncertain term in double quotes:
I started charting a text. The language is an SOV language, however the
"dependent propositions" come before the "main" and there can be several
"dependent propositions" at once. Unfortunately, there is no way of
indicating this in FLEx ( or I have not found it, which is always
possible), even though this is available for languages which have the
"main " before the dependent propositions, if I understand it right.
(The French translation is not very clear in this part of Flex, in
version 6.1 anyway). Since I see the charting of texts as one of the
strengths of FLEx, I'd really appreciate to be able to do this in the
best way possible for the languages I work with. Even more so since, as
far as I know, there are at least as many languages that are verb final
as there are those that are not verb final. Therefore this quite likely
is a problem encountered by other linguists.

Many thanks for any help with this.
David Baines.