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Distinguishing coordinating / subordinating conjunctions #21

Open jonathanrobie opened 7 years ago

jonathanrobie commented 7 years ago

The Lowfat trees have greater flexibility than the GBI software allows. We have the opportunity to distinguish coordinating / subordinating conjunctions and properly reflect their position in the tree, which would be a big win for the Treedown representation.

Is there a rule that we could query to identify them?

There are lists in grammars like Smyth, but they are not unambiguous, and would require someone to look at each individual use to sort it out. Worth doing, but time consuming.

jtauber commented 7 years ago

I really wish Friberg were available as I seem to recall they do this. It's against UBS3 but it might not be that difficult to just manually go through the differences (like we would with Levinsohn)

jonathanrobie commented 7 years ago

For subordinating conjunctions used in a clause, the right approach may well be to use an adjunct.

See https://github.com/biblicalhumanities/greek-new-testament/issues/30.