Comparing headwords via regular expressions.

[Aaron Broadwell]

Colleagues --

In the course of exploring possible derivational morphology, I would like to compare entries of verbs that end in the syllables -co or -to to similar entries of verbs without this final syllable.

So, for instance, if I have entries for verbs like aboto or aboco, I would like to look at the entry of a verb like abo.

I can work out how to do this manually, with two windows.  One window has the headwords filtered for final -co or -to, and in the other window, I scroll through entries looking for anything similar.

But I wonder if there is some more elegant way to do this with regular expressions.  I want (approximately) to compare headwords with a pattern (\w+) to those with a pattern \1{tc}o.  The problem is that I am not sure if there is a way to make the search apply across headwords.

I would be grateful for suggestions.

Aaron Broadwell

[Daniel Kaufman]

Hi Aaron, 

I don't think there's a way to search across headwords with regular expressions in FLEx but if you can export just your headwords into a single text file then, in principle, the following regular expression would do the trick:

(\w+\b) ?(?=(?:.*\s)*(?:\1(?:co|to)\b))

But it is memory intensive and can thus fail or take a very long time on a large file. Perhaps there is an easier way, but I'm not enough of a regexpert to figure that out. 

best,

Dan

[Jeff Shrum]

Aaron,

 

I am just thinking that Phonology Assistant (PA) may work for this.  While you are not doing phonology you are sorting on environments.  I believe that PA exports sort results for the use in phonology papers.  Something to consider that would not require exporting your data into a different format like say a spreadsheet or something.

 

 

Jeff Shrum

SIL International

Language Technology Consultant

Dallas, TX USA

Extension: 2030

Cell: 903-371-0297

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[Jonathan Dailey]

What if you filter on verbs and then sort?  Shouldn't that show you the data if it is like the above?

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[Aaron Broadwell]

Thank you all for these suggestions!

Aaron

On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 2:21:07 PM UTC-5, Aaron Broadwell wrote: