Ian,
Andy Black has written an excellent paper on this topic:
https://lingtran.net/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=770
If you still have problems or questions after reading that, write to me directly or post to the FLEx list and I’ll see what additional details you might need.
Kevin Warfel
Associate Dictionary and Lexicography Services Coordinator
a.k.a. Dictionary Development Coordinator
SIL International
Current technology makes it possible to provide those translating into just about any language with both a dictionary and a thesaurus in the target language, the standard tools of the trade for professional translators, so why are mother-tongue translators in minority languages still expected to do their work without these tools? Ask me about Rapid Word Collection after reading about it at rapidwords.net.
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Thank you for this post, Gray. It brought to my attention the fact that the valuable content you referred to is no longer available there. I am actively trying to discover where it was moved to, and when I do, I will post the new link here.
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The missing article has been located. (Thanks, Jason Naylor!)
Here is its new “address”: https://lingtran.net/Modeling-Bantu-Noun-Classes
Best wishes to Gray and anyone else interested in modeling an African language with noun classes in FLEx!
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I am glad you all found the article. The most important concept you need for modeling Bantu in Flex is that gender-noun prefixes are inflectional features and not parts of speech. It is recommended that you have a custom field to enter the plural forms in the entries. There should not be separated entries for plural and singular. If you are going to use the parser then the allomorphs for all the prefixes should be entered along with their respective environments.
For each noun you will need to specify the inflectional features. The dialogue looks like this:
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Gray,
You ask some very interesting questions. I am happy to try and answer them.
I hope I have answered your questions. If not ask again, and maybe others would have good things to add to your questions.
Jeff Shrum
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