Re: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun

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.

In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if this method wouldn't work well as a
sort of relay project.  Someone creates a gloss of the first sentence
with no interlinear or explanation whatsoever.  Someone else then
creates a gloss of the second sentence, likewise explanationless, but
which must be consistent with the first sentence (repeated concepts
should have recognizably repeated morphemes, e.g.).  And so on.  It
seems like this sort of group-creation project has been tried before,
but without the guidance provided by the McGuffey readers . . .

-Marcos

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