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MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote: > > Since the basic argument structures (BAS) and parts of speech (POS) are so > important in Ladekwa, you could use their suffixes, as given in the Reference > Manual, Appendix B, as abbreviations for the BAS and POS. E.g., "-te" words are > A/P/F-d verbs, so their abbreviation could be "mbama" (or just "mba". Since > the BAS suffixes are all verbs by default, the POS wouldn't have to be > included for verbs.) Another example: all "-ka" words are P-s nouns by default, so > their abbreviations could be "nsumi". > This way all the BAS/POS information is immediately available to the user, in > a form that he has to know anyway in order to use the language, so there is > less burden on the memory. > If there's a need to provide so much information, I might as well just use descriptive labels, such as "A/P/F-d verb" or "P-s noun". Besides, if I saw something like "nsumi", I'd just translate it in my head into "P-s noun". Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram