UAlbertaALTLab / morphodict

Plains Cree Intelligent Dictionary
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New potential glitches in English phrase analysis/generation #1086

Open aarppe opened 2 years ago

aarppe commented 2 years ago
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aarppe commented 2 years ago

This appears to be a transcriptor problem.

aarppe commented 2 years ago

This appears to be caused by plural-only Cree verbs having English definitions with the subject they, for which the corresponding verb-form is the suffixless infinitive, e.g. work in they work together. The current transcriptor presumes a 3rd person singular verb-form as the starting point for converting to the past tense form (i.e. works -> worked), as is consequently not able to apply the conversion work -> worked.