LinguList
commented
2 years ago Good catch. This must, I am afraid, be handled on the basis of individual languages.
There are two ways to proceed:
- if you catch errors, you provide the "Value" (how the form is represented in the ABVD interface.
- we make a list of all items with a slash (to see about how many we talk here) and decide if we can annotate all of them
The annotation procedure would be that one resolves the slash. E.g., if it is a morpheme boundary, replace by a -, etc.
barlowrussell
SimonGreenhill
maryewal
It seems like the forward slash is mainly used to indicate alternate forms for a given concept, but it also creeps up in other places, perhaps to indicate morpheme boundaries (?), as in 'twenty' and 'fifty' in Malagasy (Sakalava) [1184] and Malagasy (Tandroy) [1186]: <roa/pòlo> and <lima/m/pòlo>. A few words for 'vomit' also seem to have slashes, e.g., Rarotongan <rua/ki>. This of course results in the problematic interpretation that and are both forms for 'vomit', whereas there's really just one form /ruaki/.