Re: Designing a language database - issues?

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>> ...Literally, they say, "Shovel-with, I dug a hole", whereas in English,
>> you would say "With a shovel, I dug a hole".

>The above can be stored using "(CREATE paul dug holeX with shovelY)" in
>xrdb; however an application could present it differently (ie. with
>shovelY, paul dug holeX).

>> ... I was just wondering if any work had been done on this at
>> all by any scholars/linguists - whatever?

>Someone probably has but they are unlikely to be db experts and vise
>versa :)

Well, in the uni I attended (Trinity College Dublin), there were people who were doing linguistics and maths as a joint degree (and within maths, one could choose a heavy computer science element), and it was also my understanding that the academics who would have tackled these issues would have a grounding in both C.S and linguistics? No? Speech analysis is a major field in C.S. for example.

Paul...

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