Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!news.indigo.ie!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Designing a language database - issues? Organization: Neant Reply-To: Read the sig. Message-ID: <88q7c1d2ocfa2q7jsojh53fmn98dbfdf7v@4ax.com> References: <1120060140.731435.304530@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1120101179.252691.302800@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:46:17 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 159.134.147.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eircom.net X-Trace: news.indigo.ie 1120135650 159.134.147.74 (Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:47:30 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:47:30 BST Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:31847 "Neo" 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... -- plinehan __at__ yahoo __dot__ __com__ XP Pro, SP 2, Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.) Interbase 6.0.1.0=6; When asking database related questions, please give other posters some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL. The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!"). Thanks. Furthermore, As a courtesy to those who spend time analysing and attempting to help, please do not top post.