New pages / parts of speech

[Hela, Eric]

John,

Pekpek sut - also mean to express on being scared of someone/something.
Another idiom, i guess. Em pekpek sut long mi na ron we. meaning- He was
scared of me so he ran away.

Eric Hela 
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Morobe Consolidated Goldfields
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Burton [mailto:John.Burton at anu.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: New pages / parts of speech


Thanks Jerry.

You will notice I have added three new pages (generated by the database):

Last Fifteen - indexes the last fifteen entries to be edited
Parts of speech - gives summary stats for the parts of speech that I have
been classified senses into
Usage classification - gives summary stats for the usages that I have been
classified senses into

The whole question of parts of speech needs looking into. Mihalic's
'Grammar' was thorough but too formal becuase many words in TP are multi-use
entities. You will notice I use only 'mdoifier' where he had adjectives and
adverbs. You will also notice I use 'Noun/modifier' where nouns (yes, these
exist) are also modifiers. But should we call some words 'Multiuse' or some
such term?

Example: sut
sut - it's a noun ("injection")
han sut - it's a modifier (an adjective)
bel bilong mi sut - it's an intransitive verb

Also:
pekpek sut - it's a noun phrase (diarrhoea)
pekpek sut - it's a verb phrase (mi pekpek sut long toilet etc)

Otherwise, how is the organisation of the pages so far?

John Burton


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