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Online Linguistic Database (OLD)
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Support infixes #3

Open jrwdunham opened 7 years ago

jrwdunham commented 7 years ago

Currently, the only way for the OLD to handle an infix is to treat it as a regular affix, i.e., a suffix or prefix. Then the morphological parsers could be used to construct a phonology that handles the surface manifestation of that affix.

However, given the Leipzig glossing rules, angle brackets are used:

b<um>ili
<ACTFOC>buy
'buy'

However, the OLD would not currently be able to parse something like the above, i.e., it would not be able to recognize "bili" glossed as "buy" as a morpheme and "um" glossed as "ACTFOC" as another and create links to their lexical entries. However, this is something that the OLD should support.