Re: Lexicon counting (was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.1...)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 7:16 |
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* Feaelin Moilar said on 2006-09-04 04:07:53 +0200
> > This has boosted the lexicon to 267 entries.
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> I've occasionally wondered and only now been motivated to ask, when one
> counts the entries, what do you count? I'm presuming only one form of the
> word (in the situation of conjugation, declensions, and the like) and
> myself I would exclude an whole group of entries in my data that are
> "famous names".
I don't count names or borrowed words. I use Toolbox, so it's easy to
just add a field, or search/count on records not having a field etc.
Names have a \ps (part of speech) of Name, while borrowed words all have
the extra field \bw (borrowing) in its entry.
I do count, and have, all affixes in my dictionary, but words from open classes are
all only represented by their uninflected form:
- nouns: agentive case, general number
- verbs: first person present continuous indicative
- statives: first person present agentive case
t.