Re: XML for linguists?

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Charles wrote:

> <clause type="main" ...>
>         <phrase type="noun" case="erg" trans="my ... ...">
>                 <word pos="det" agree="pos" person="1s" hon="MGH" trans="my">
>                         edo
>                 </word>
>                 <word pos="..." ... ...>
>                         qoiqoi
>                 </word>
>         </phrase>
>         <phrase type="verb" ...>
>                 ...
>         </phrase>
> </clause>
>
It's currently a weakness in the design of Kura that it doesn't provide
for syntactical information, just morphological, and possibly
phonological. It's something that needs a lot of thinking, so for now, I
guess I'll restrict myself to morphology only. That's a lot of work in
itself...

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt