hyphens in analysis

[Brian O'Herin]

We have lots of prefixes, which are normally written as one word with the root they attach to. However, if they attach to a proper name (or to a noun that is identified with God and thus capitalized), there is an orthographic convention that uses a hyphen: e.g. “pre-God” This messes up my flex analysis since it treats the two things on either side of the hyphen as separate words, giving me an unattached prefix and a (possibly obligatorily bound) root without its prefix.

 

Is there a way to make FLEx treat these as a single word, short of just removing the hyphens?

 

Brian

[Craig]

Search for "word-forming hyphen" in the help for instructions on configuring this.

Craig.

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[Jonathan Dailey]

The irony of the search terms is amazing.

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Jonathan Dailey

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[Leaders, Marlin]

Brian, there are a number of different hyphens in Unicode. The Hyphen-Minus sign is - (number #002D) typically used is what I think is causing your problem. If you want to treat all hyphen-minuses as word-forming you could  do that.

Or, you can use a Non-Breaking hyphen instead. It is ‑  (code #2011). I think you can do a Search and Replace or Bulk-Edit to swap out the Hyphen-Minus (#002D) for the Non-Breaking hyphen (#2011).

 

Another hyphen nearby is Number ‐ (#2010). It is a Punctuation Hyphen. If I understand it correctly, I believe that would be a worse problem for you. I think it would split words up like a period would in an interlinear text.

 

Each of the 3 hyphens I’ve inserted here are their different Unicode points. If you select any one hyphen in a Microsoft product and then press Alt with x, it will convert to their hexadecimal number. And conversely you could type the number (leading zeroes can be omitted), select it, then type Alt x to get the hyphen character. They all look the same to me, but are different characters and do different things in FLEx interlinear texts, as I understand it.

Hope this helps,

Marlin

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[Hugh Paterson]

As of yet un-mentioned is the U+02D7 ˗ MODIFIER LETTER MINUS SIGN Which acts as a letter. I'v not seen it in use in Bantu/bantoid languages, but I have in Mande languages, where it is a letter, does not cause word breaks, is included with the word when you double click the word, and is – in the ivory coast – used as a tone mark.

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