How to mark reduplication in the Wordlist

Question

A translator wrote this, “I am working on the wordlist for the Northern Kankanay translation so that I can work on the key terms for them. Is there a way to show reduplication before the root? Such as makilaglagsak - maki+ lag+ lagsak. I would like to mark the ‘lag’ as reduplication. (maki (join together) redup (intense ) lagsak (happy) ‘join in rejoicing’) The reduplication carries the meaning of continuing or intensifying whatever the root is.”

I looked in the help for reduplication, but that seems to say you need to put ‘&’ after the reduplicated part (in place of the reduplicated “affix”). But in this case, the reduplicated “affix” comes before (lag+), and the 2nd lag is part of the root (lagsak).

Would maki+ lag+ &sak work? Except, would that identify lagsak as the root?

Thanks,

james_post

Answer 1

When I spent time recently manually going through the lexicon.xml file in order to correct incorrect parses, I noticed a few stems with the “&” symbol at the end in the raw file itself. From what I can see, the “&” symbol does not seem to be recognised in the wordlist for reduplication, entering it as such just makes Paratext think that there is a stem that has a “&” at the end. Incidentally, going through and editing incorrect parses in the file was very profitable, since there seems to be no other way of correcting a wrongly-entered parse, and it is remarkably easy to end up with incorrect parses since as soon you click ok it saves whatever you have put as a valid parse.

Answer 2

I’m also interested in how reduplication should be marked in the wordlist. The only mention in PT help that I can see is for using the “&” to mark reduplication in the Biblical Terms Tool, and I’m not sure whether the same symbol has the same meaning and is interpreted in the same way when it comes to the wordlist and morphology.