Re: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:31:45AM -0800, Gary
> Shannon wrote:
> > http://fiziwig.com/korpu001.txt
>
> Interesting - and not what I imagined when you
> announced the project.
> I don't think I like the explicit statement of rules
> after the sentences
> . . . it seems like it would be better to infer
> things like "sa is the
> accusative indefinite article" from the corpus
> rather than having them
> baldly stated in notes right next to the first
> sentence of the first
> reader.
<snip>

Yes, that would be more interesting for the reader,
but I did it that way as reference for myself so I
don't lose sight of where I am and what I'm doing. As
time goes on some of those rules may prove to be wrong
anyway, but for now it's handy to have something
written down to refer back to while the language is
still in its infancy, since this is the only existing
documentation of the language.

--gary

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