[open-humanities] Open Databases for Verb Morphology

Thu Jan 19 18:16:36 UTC 2012

Awesome site. Greek is greek to me but got your drift, so I know what to look for.

Norma Leistiko
normaleistiko at me.com

On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:08 AM, James Harriman-Smith wrote:

> Hi Norma,
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> And thanks for the mail.
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> <Got an  example? >
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> I'm afraid that I haven't any examples of such a thing online, but what I'm looking for would be a database that had, say, (using English regular verbs as an archetype), all the possible variants on the verb 'walk' in it, catalogued accordingly: 'walk' as infinitive, and, for the present tense indicative mood, first-second person singular, and first-second-third person plural (among others); 'walks' as third person singular; etc.
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> I've been working on this for a web app that would interrogate a users knowledge of Ancient Greek verbs: http://verbgymnasium.com - it currently runs off a set of php arrays that I made myself, but if the amount of work needed to include verbs other than the regular verb 'luo' is rather intimidating....
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> Hope that helps,
> 
> James
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> On 19 January 2012 18:41, Norma Leistiko <normaleistiko at me.com> wrote:
> Got an  example? I am on the lookout and would love to find this too. But an example to us in English would be very useful. I think I understand, but example would help.
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> Norma Leistiko
> normaleistiko at me.com
> Reference Librarian, on-call in
> Portland Oregon area
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> On Jan 19, 2012, at 2:06 AM, James Harriman-Smith wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Does anyone know of an open database for verb morphology (containing a collection of all the possible conjugations of a single (or several) verb archetype)? I'm particularly interested in Ancient Greek, but would be curious about resources for other languages, dead or alive.
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>> Let me know,
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>> James
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>> P.S. No sign of such a thing on http://thedatahub.org ...
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