Re: Re : Kura - status report

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> can't wait seeing that.
> do you mean Kura could interlinear any text
> fed with matching lexicon and formal
> grammar description ?
>
Not exactly - currently it only matches words word for word in the
lexicon. I'm also trying to build a kind of pattern matching in -
so that if you enter a text with a pattern it has seen before (say,
2ns-V-PRT) it will recognize it and auto-gloss it. I'm not really into
formal grammar descriptions, I like to let my analysis be determined
by the data. (Besides, I'm not competent to develop a formal grammar -
lack of schooling.)

> did you name "Kura" from japanese word for "storehouse" ?
> japanese are crazy about these kinds of "scientific" analysis
> when learning foreign langs (read "english")
>
No, Kura is Nepali for 'language' ;-). About the only Japanese I've
any familiarity with are the particles wa, ga and no... I'm not into
manga or Japanese game consoles, or anything else Japanese really, so
I haven't got much stimulus to acquaint myself with its vocabulary.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt