Re: Morpheme index project

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:48:57 -0400, Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:

>Hello, :-)
>
>I'm interested in building an index for the morphemes
>of a projected isolating IAL. In it, they would be listed
>without having them assigned to the actual words that would
>represent them in the language yet (because one of the most
>difficult parts for IAL designers is to reach at a consensus
>about its external appearance: phonology, source for
>vocabulary, etc.), but just defining them, e.g. "progessive
>aspect marker", and assigning them an indexing 4-digit
>hexadecimal number that would serve to identify them clearly,
>easily and shortly when designing the grammar and to have
>them neatly organized and classified. The indexing would be
>based upon semantic-functional grounds, thus grouping together
>e.g. all the morphemes for the semantic field "colour", all the
>morphemes for aspect markers, etc.
I'm not sure about using numbers for this. Too easy to make copying
mistakes without noticing the error. One thing that I've done when I have a
definition but haven't yet decided on a word for it in the language is to
use English words or abbreviations in capital letters. Later, once I've
figured out what the word really sounds like, it's a simple matter of
find-and-replace, match case, whole words only.

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