Rod Decker Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Any way to search for all the liquid verbs in a corpus? i.e., those whose *stem* ends with λ μ ν or ρ? e.g., μενω or ἐγειρω. You can't just use an ending wildcard since that looks for either lexical forms or inflected forms. I tried: [verb ] @*(λ,μ,ν,ρ)ω Assuming that this might find any verb with a liquid followed by an omega (the lexical form entry always ends in omega), but Accord "burps" on that string, so there must be something more sophisticated. Or maybe more simple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Lang Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Rod, You're not too far off. The parenthesized letters need to follow a character wildcard, and you don't need the commas between them. Like this: [verb ] @*?(λμνρ)ω The asterisk represents any combination of characters before the liquid, while the question mark represents the liquid itself. The parentheses constrain the question mark so that it can only represent the characters included within the parentheses. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Decker Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Thanks. That does the trick--at least it generates a list that needs to be manually sifted since a lot of hits are not liquids, but at least it's do-able. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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