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Re: Shoebox: Contraction Troubles

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Thursday, December 19, 2002, 20:41
Emaelivpahr Taliesin:
>[should: n'om <=> ne no -im, goes: n'om => ne no - no -im] > >Try: >\lx ne >\ge OBJ >\a n'- >\u ne+no
This doesn't parse at all. I'm assuming that it fails because once Shoebox takes of the |n'| prefix it's left with |om|, which doesn't have |no| in it and so it doesn't match the underlying form. But this is just me pretending to understand how Shoebox parses. :)
>Since the result is so short you might want to force a parse as well: > >\lx n'om >\u ne no -im
I'd really rather not have to use a kludge solution like this, but if it turns out the only way to do it then I'll make a new lexicon file with stuff necesary for parsing only...

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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>