Re: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 20, 2004, 21:27 |
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Gary Shannon wrote:
I find this idea very productive. I'll try my next project on the same
material when I have time. Unfortuntely, the text needs some adaptations to
the peculiarities of the lg. if the it has different typology than English.
Thus, e.g., I see the verb "to see" in the very first
sentence. It behaves oddly in one of my nameless embryoconlangs (#36):
recepient stands in Dative!
Lit.: boy seen me-DAT
But in general it is a very useful tool.
-- Yitzik
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