Warlpiri/Midterm - Revision history

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‎Notes for Midterm Overview

Tjones5: Created page with "==Notes for Midterm Overview== *Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory part of the Pama..."

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Created page with "==Notes for Midterm Overview== *Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia **Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory **part of the Pama..."

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==Notes for Midterm Overview==

*Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia
**Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory
**part of the Pama-Nyungan language family

*Warlpiri is an agglutinative language
**means that grammatical information is encoded in affixes attached to word stems
**Warlpiri words have many suffixes, so sentences have relatively few words

*Warlpiri has 21 phonemes, and uses a Latin orthography

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 *There are 11 different combinations of person/number, because there's a singular/dual/plural distinction as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction for 1st person dual/plural.
 **I have a tag for each one of these combinations.
-**A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.
+*A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.
 ==Who to work with==

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 *Warlpiri is an Ergative-Absolutive language: "An ergative–absolutive language is a language in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb" (Wikipedia).
 *There's a small number of verb roots (about 100), which have tense markers, but there's a huge number of auxiliaries.
 *Auxiliaries (along with the verb suffix) identify tense, they identify the relationship between the main and dependent clauses, and they identify the person and number of the subject and object.
 *There are 11 different combinations of person/number, because there's a singular/dual/plural distinction as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction for 1st person dual/plural.
 **I have a tag for each one of these combinations.

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	**I have a tag for each one of these combinations.		**I have a tag for each one of these combinations.
	**A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.		**A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.
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		+	==Who to work with==
		+	*No one else is working on a language from the Pama-Nyungan language family.
		+	*Thinking of working with Martina and Lee who have languages in the Austronesian family. I think they have had similar affixes identifying person/number as well as some common sources of ambiguity (such as limited distinction between nouns and adjectives).
		+	*If anybody has had similar structures I'd like to hear from them!

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 ==Evaluation==
 *Currently getting about 40% coverage of my corpus. I increased this number dramatically this week by adding punctuation, because in Warlpiri, the suffixes are often added with hyphens, so most words contain hyphens.
-*Total number of tokens: 1416 and total number of analyses: 1574, which means that I have some ambiguity to sort through.
+*Total number of tokens: 1416 and total number of analyses: 1574 (which is puts my measure of ambiguity at 1.1) which means that I have some ambiguity to sort through.
 ==Challenges==

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-==Notes for Midterm Overview==
+Notes for midterm evaluation
 *Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia
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 *Warlpiri has 21 phonemes, and uses a Latin orthography
 *Currently getting about 40% coverage of my corpus. I increased this number dramatically this week by adding punctuation, because in Warlpiri, the suffixes are often added with hyphens, so most words contain hyphens.
 *Total number of tokens: 1416 and total number of analyses: 1574, which means that I have some ambiguity to sort through.
 *Understanding the grammar has been the hardest part for me. Luckily Warlpiri is a quite well-studied language, so I've been able to find a few good resources. A few things that have been difficult:
-**Warlpiri is an Ergative-Absolutive language: "An ergative–absolutive language is a language in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb" (Wikipedia).
+*Warlpiri is an Ergative-Absolutive language: "An ergative–absolutive language is a language in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb" (Wikipedia).
-**There's a small number of verb roots (about 100), which have tense markers, but there's a huge number of auxiliaries.
+*There's a small number of verb roots (about 100), which have tense markers, but there's a huge number of auxiliaries.
-**Auxiliaries (along with the verb suffix) identify tense, they identify the relationship between the main and dependent clauses, and they identify the person and number of the subject and object.
+*Auxiliaries (along with the verb suffix) identify tense, they identify the relationship between the main and dependent clauses, and they identify the person and number of the subject and object.
-**There are 11 different combinations of person/number, because there's a singular/dual/plural distinction as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction for 1st person dual/plural.
+*There are 11 different combinations of person/number, because there's a singular/dual/plural distinction as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction for 1st person dual/plural.
 **A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.

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	*Warlpiri has 21 phonemes, and uses a Latin orthography		*Warlpiri has 21 phonemes, and uses a Latin orthography
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		+	*Currently getting about 40% coverage of my corpus. I increased this number dramatically this week by adding punctuation, because in Warlpiri, the suffixes are often (but not always) added with hyphens, so most words contain hyphens.
		+
		+	*Understanding the grammar has been the hardest part for me. Luckily Warlpiri is a quite well-studied language, so I've been able to find a few good resources. A few things that have been difficult:
		+	**Warlpiri is an Ergative-Absolutive language: "An ergative–absolutive language is a language in which the single argument ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent of a transitive verb" (Wikipedia).
		+	**There's a small number of verb roots (about 100), which have tense markers, but there's a huge number of auxiliaries.
		+	**Auxiliaries (along with the verb suffix) identify tense, they identify the relationship between the main and dependent clauses, and they identify the person and number of the subject and object.
		+	**There are 11 different combinations of person/number, because there's a singular/dual/plural distinction as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction for 1st person dual/plural.
		+	**A challenge that I'm facing with the disambiguation is that word order isn't based on grammatical function, but instead on topic/focus of the conversation.

Warlpiri/Midterm - Revision history

Tjones5: /* Challenges */

Tjones5: /* Challenges */

Tjones5 at 02:57, 2 March 2017

Tjones5 at 02:53, 2 March 2017

Tjones5 at 02:43, 2 March 2017

Tjones5 at 02:39, 2 March 2017

Tjones5: /* Notes for Midterm Overview */

Tjones5: Created page with "==Notes for Midterm Overview== *Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia **Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory **part of the Pama..."

Tjones5: Created page with "==Notes for Midterm Overview== *Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory part of the Pama..."