Re: Shoebox: Outfixes

Joseph Fatula wrote:
> What is this Shoebox?  It sounds really neat, but I have no idea what
> it is!
It's a program from SIL
(http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/shoebox.html) that allows you to
sort your lexicon by multiple fields, and to parse and translate on a
morpheme-by-morpheme basis text.  For example, using some cut-and-paste
from my copy of Shoebox:

\t faatattan                              nattabii
\m fa-    katal       -tan                nal-   zbi  -i
\g Past-  fall asleep -3Pl.Rational.Abs.  2.Pl.- boy  -Plural
\p Tense- Verb        -Personal Suffix    GM-    Noun -Number

The first line is the original text ("faatattan nattabii").
The second line is the morphemes themselves.  I used this particular
example because there are a lot of stem changes.
The third line gives the translation of each morpheme (2.Pl. means "2nd
gender plural)
The fourth line gives the class of each morpheme (GM = Gender Marker).

You can customize the information you wish it to give you, this is just
the format I chose.

It used to be free, but now it costs $45.

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