Affix and s.rtr
I fixed the errors in the s.rtr file and then went back to working on the affix file. In the affix file I accomplished the following:
1. I corrected some feature structures at the beginning of the file which had errors
2. I worked on restructuring the p entry. This entry was a mess because it has a lot of cross-references and the conversion program placed all the cross-references at the beginning of the entry and not in the right dictegs, and some of the cross-references also had their transcriptions and their glosses separated.
3. I moved the p entry into the glottal stop ‘Inchoative’ entry since p is an allomorph of the Inchoative.
Three issues arose:
1. In the ‘Inchoative’ entry one of the allomorphs (the glottal stop), is an infix, while the other allomorph (the -p) is a suffix. In the feature structure it is possible to two different symbol values for type of morpheme, so I used this possibility to list the ‘Inchoative’ morpheme as being both an infix and a suffix.
• Question for Martin: But the question that I have is how can we indicate which allomorph is an infix and which is a suffix in the database? Does this pose any kind of problem for the database/
2. In the affix file there seem to be two different ways of doing cross-references: one way involves using the tag xr and the other involves using the note tag with dictegs and quote. I need to figure out what the difference is and whether there is a problem to be fixed here, or whether there is a consistent reason for the difference.
• Task for Ewa: how are cross-references used in dictegs?
3. The last question that arose has to do with markup of glosses in illustration (dictegs).
• Question for Martin: Do we want the English-Nx wordlist to be able to access illustration glosses, and if so, how do we mark this up? Can we use the same system of segs and glosses?