compare to Huet, verbs, aorist tense

[funderburkjim]

This issue summarizes differences and similarities noticed in the comparison of verb conjugations; the methodology is described in the readme for huetcompare/verbs-tp-aor.

[funderburkjim]

root comparison

huet_stems_aor.txt summarizes the roots that appear in aorist conjugation forms in the SL_roots.xml file from Huet. For a given root, aorist conjugations may appear in either the Parasamaipada or Atmanepada or Passive form. Each aorist form also has a 'kind', identified by a number 1 to 7. This kind-pada information is present in the file.

In the stems file, this passive form is listed as 'Q' (instead of 'P' and 'A' for the two padas).

pysan_stems_aor.txt summarizes the roots and kind-padas that appear in the MW-verb-aor.txt of the pysan system. There are no passive forms in MW-verb-aor.

The two lists of roots and kind-padas are compared in compare_stems_aor.txt.

This comparison is organized into categories:

• 15 cases of roots which appear in both sources, and with the same kind-pada data
• 11 cases of roots that appear in both sources, but with Huet kind-pada variants as a subset of pysan kind-pada variants.
• 29 cases of roots that appear in both sources, but with Pysan kind-pada variants as a subset of Huet kind-pada variants.
• 67 cases of roots that appear in both sources, with a incommensurate kind-pada variants.
• 1492 cases of roots which appear only in the pysan source
• 10 cases of roots which appear only in the Huet source

In all, there are 132 roots in Huet which have aorist forms. Only 15 of these have identical kind-pada information in Pysan. So, the identification of appropriate aorist varieties and padas is a significant difference in the two systems.

[funderburkjim]

conjugation table comparison

huet_conj_tables_aor.txt contains 355 aorist tense conjugation tables derived from Huet's SL_roots.xml.

Each of these appears on one line of the file.

For each of these Huet computations, a comparable computation from the pysan system was prepared, taking into account the class-kind-pada information used by pysan aorist tense computations. The result is pysan_conj_tables_aor.txt.

compare_conj_tables_aor.txt summarizes the similarities and differences in the corresponding conjugations from the two files just mentioned. Some statistics resulting from the comparison:

• 118 (33% of the 355) aorist conjugations are identical in the two systems.
  • There are examples of all aorist varieties.
  • Thus, the aorist variety (kind) number used by the two systems has the same significance in terms of conjugation construction.
• 207 (58%) of the Huet conjugations have no comparable pysan conjugation. This large percentage is due to
  • differences in the aorist varieties (kinds) and padas for many roots in the two systems
  • to a lesser extent (25 cases), the passive conjugations of Huet which the pysan aorist source does not have.
• 30 ( 9%) of the remaining conjugations differ in one or more details.

[funderburkjim]

This completes the initial observations regarding aorist conjugations in the two systems.