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Re: [lojban] Glossing


On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 12:02 AM Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
Morphematim (morphematatim?) glossing is used in linguistics to show the
grammatical structure of text in a language.

Perhaps it could just as well be shortened to "morphatim", assuming "interlinear" is not clear enough.  (For those on the list who were confused like me:  I think it's modeled on the adverb "verbatim" and means "morpheme-by-morpheme").
 
Content morphemes are glossed in
lowercase (capitalized if they are proper nouns, or any nouns if the glosses
are in German); function morphemes are glossed in small caps (or all caps if
you don't have small caps). Here's a simple sentence in Lojban with an
attitudinal phrase. How would you gloss it?

i lo bicrbombu cu se bevri mi o'adai lo mamta be mi vau

What this little example shows is how much of Lojban defies conventional description.  Someone would have come up with special glosses, as the usual list is of little avail.  Here, I try to make new glosses by adding -Z (starter/izer) and -T (terminator) to known abbreviations.  -Z is standard but -T is my own invention.

Usual list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glossing_abbreviations

i lo bicrbombu cu se bevri mi o'adai lo mamta be mi vau
SENTT DET bee-CLZ-Bombus VPZ INV carry 1 proudly-OBV DET mother INAL 1 VPT

Breakdown:

morph / gloss (/ gloss translation)
* = Not standard, or not common

i / *SENT or *SENTT / sentence or sentence-terminator (actually a separator, but "terminator" is close enough)
lo / DET or *NPZ / determiner or noun-phrase-izer
bic- / bee
-r- / *CLZ / classifier-izer (turns previous morpheme into a classifier prefix)
-bombu / "Bombus" or bumblebee
cu / *VPZ / verb-phrase-izer
se / INV / inverse voice
bevri / carry
mi / 1 or 1SG / 1st person or 1st person singular (pragmatically, probably sg right?)
o'a- / proudly
-dai / OBV / obviate (don't know what else to call this)
lo / DET or *NPZ
mamta / mother
be / INAL / inalienable possession
mi / 1
vau / *VPT / verb-phrase-terminator

 
mi'e .maik.
mu'o.
 

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