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Hi! Melroch 'Aestan writes: > Henrik Theiling skrev: >... > > Ah, ok. So awefully many books I don't have. :-/ > > Yes, same here. Are books awfully expensive in Germany > too? When I was there around 18 years ago I thought > they were at least significantly cheaper than in Sweden, > but that's long ago and everything is relative. Well, they are expensive enough to prevent me from buying everything I want immediately. :-/ > Anyway "Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch" is high > on my list of books I'd want an electronic version of, >... Yes, any lexicon searchable with a computer significant improves. >... > BTW I find this <http://tinyurl.com/z8yau> online Latin > wordlist handy: it is less buggy than the Perseus database, > does support substring searches(*) and its output is relatively > easy to save as plaintext for further processing. Ah, I will bookmark it. If I haven't missed a switch, it has the unfortunate drawback of many, many online resources of Latin of not marking vowel length, however. But apart from that, it seems to be *much* faster and offers more ways of searching than Perseus, yes. So thanks for sharing the link! :-) >... > BTW I searched your example file to see > how you determine Latin stress. Is this: > > # property latin_stress > # first last > # first, [ last ] > # long, [ last ] > # any, [ short ], [ last ] > > all there's to it? Currently, yes. > Does this mean you don't apply the _muta cum liquida_ rule in > Þrjótrunn in spite of its 'classicism' (no blame, just wondering)? > How would you preserve stress information after it is lexicalized? > I guess one *would* have to introduce some sort of stressmark into > the string, e.g. > > rule "stress mark" > syllable latin_stress > (V:,W) > _' > > where ' after a vowel works as stress mark. If I were to really use the stress but for very simple things at the beginning of the Latin import, then yes, definitely. However, Þrjótrunn shifts the stress to the first syllable almost immediately. Only very few things are done using Latin stress, and for that, the current rules are probably enough. Wheneven I shift Latin words with stress that does not obey the above rules, I currently have to do some things manually. **Henrik