frequency of morphemes

[Françoise Rose]

Dear all,

I would like to be able to evaluate the frequency of some morphemes (could be roots, affixes or clitics) in my Flex texts.                                                                                                                                                                                

 

With this goal in mind, I have two questions:

Is there a way to have the total count of morphemes in the text database, just as with words in the statistics panel ?

Is there a synthetic way to see how many times each root/affix/clitic is found in the texts, just as it is possible for words in the Word lists ? For now the only possibility I see is to do concordance search within each lexicon entry separately.

 

Very best,

Françoise

 

 

Françoise ROSE (fʁɑ̃swɑz ʁoz)

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[Jesse Wichers Schreur]

Hi Françoise,

The way I do it is to go to the tab "Lexicon edit", and add the column "Number of text analyses". Is that what you are looking for?

Best,

Jesse

Jesse Wichers Schreur

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

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[Françoise Rose]

Dear Jesse,

I am so happy that there actually is a simple way to count the number of occurrences of a given morpheme in my corpus.

 

I have tried it with the two columns that seemed to be relevant:

Number of text analyses (entry)

Number of text analyses (sense)

 

I don’t understand why the numbers don’t match in the example below.

It does not seem to be related to the fact that there are two variants for this morpheme, because these totalize only 9 occurrences.

Any suggestion?

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for the useful tip.

Françoise

 

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[Kevin Warfel]

Françoise,

You mention that there are a total of 9 occurrences of the variant entries (if I've understood correctly). That leads me to this calculation:

126 occurrences of the main (non-variant) form + 9 occurrences of the variant forms = 135 total occurrences

The main (non-variant) entry is the only one with a sense—variants most commonly do not include a sense because it's the same as the entry they are a variant of. Thus, all of the occurrences for the senses are listed in the main entry (independently of the actual form—main or variant—which occurs). There are 135 of these occurrences as well (113 + 8 + 11 + 3 + 0). 

That yields equal "number of text analyses (entry)" and "number of text analyses (sense)".

So, if I've understood your situation correctly, the numbers shown are consistent, not contradictory.

But maybe I've completely missed your point?

Best,

Kevin

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[Françoise Rose]

Hi !

From looking at other entry, I think I understand.

 

Number of text analyses (entry) looks only at lexeme form, excluding allomorphs and variants

Number of text analyses (sense) includes allomorphs and variants

 

Best,

Françoise

 

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