Re: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:19:03 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

>Gary Shannon wrote:
>
>> > > http://fiziwig.com/korpu001.txt
>
>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
My problem is not "see" but "have", and also the fact that there is no
first-person singular.  In Proboscidean, it's effectively always in the
passive, so "I have a ball" becomes "a ball is owned by this one"

But all in all, it's been a very helpful exercise!  Proboscidean,
or /Gn=.Swn='La~/ as it should more properly be, is coming along nicely!

Of course, "boy" has to be translated as "male calf" and "girl" as "female
calf" and so on, but it's working!

This looks like it's becoming an almost "standard" method!

Geoff