CHAT: Idioms in interlinearizing (was: Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto)

* Boudewijn Rempt (bsarempt@rempt.xs4all.nl) [990614 14:29]:
> What I still don't get myself is when the morphemes
> in a form should be separated by dashes, and when by
> dots - the latter fashion came in just as I went out
> of university.
I believe the dots are used when something is implicit, a part of the lex=
eme,
and not the result of affixation and friends, here an example from ta:ruv=
en:

su=E0=FE
1q.PAT

"First person quintal, patient".

First person singular is <su=EC>, patient is <-a=FE>, and there is no=20
phonetic/sandhi- or whatever rule that generates <su=E0=FE>, therefore th=
e dot.

(<su=ECa=FE>, 1q-PAT is also a legal form in ta:ruven)


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