Linguist’s Assistant: A Resource For Linguists
This paper describes how to use LA with naturally occurring texts that exemplify interesting target-language linguistic phenomena and describes how such texts can be semantically analyzed using a convenient semi-automatic document authoring interface, in effect adding them to LA’s standard semantic-based elicitation corpus.
Abstract
The Linguist’s Assistant (LA) is a practical computational paradigm for describing languages. In this paper we describe how to use LA with naturally occurring texts that exemplify interesting target-language linguistic phenomena. We will describe how such texts can be semantically analyzed using a convenient semi-automatic document authoring interface, in effect adding them to LA’s standard semantic-based elicitation corpus. We then exemplify t h e n a g d e s c r i p i o process using a phenomenon that is prevalent in our research: alienable vs. inalienable nominal possession.