I am looking at some language data with classifiers. I do not know, in the model that FLEx is built on, how to handle classifiers. Noun classes are considered inflectional features in FLEx. But for classifiers is it recommended to use inflectional features, inflectional classes, or something else? There is no inflection involved in classifiers so it seems to me they should be handled another way. Would anyone who has experience modeling or making a dictionary for a language with classifiers mind sharing how you recorded classifier information for nouns in FLEx?
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Beth,
Thank you, this is the kind of information that I was looking for. Using a kind of lexical relation for classifier is one solution. How would this look in a printed dictionary?
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Paul,
When grammar templates are not adequate, (i.e. they allow two classifiers to match with the same possessive marker) then you need to make ad hoc rules that restrains the parser from allowing the unwanted match to your template. You can find information on ad hoc rules in Help. In general ad hoc rules should only be needed sparingly, because a large number of ad hoc rules is a sign of analysis that does not adequately describe the grammar. (Having said that, how many are too many, well who can say exactly. Just take it as rule of thumb that may be helpful to you.) If a difference is morphologically conditioned then define natural classes for you language and make environments to tell the parser when to use the allomorphs. Unfortunately, the parser cannot use any rules that cross word boundaries so making a phonological environment rule will not help in cases where more than word is involved.
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Subject: Re: [FLEx] Classifiers
This looks helpful to me, too. I think... In Doku (Oceanic), we have two possession classifiers: /ni/ 'general CLF' and /gha/ 'food, kin, and other close-to-the-heart items CLF'. These are inflected for possessor and number (dual, paucal), for example:
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