Cascadia graph questions

I'm very new to the syntax graphs and am struggling my way through understanding them. I have two "newbie" questions:

1. What do the asterisks mean at the various levels? eg CL*; sometimes they are there and sometimes not. I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.

2. Is there a way to print a couple of verses from Cascadia? For example, I tried to print Rom 5:1-2, but could not find anything in the Help.

3. There are two Syntax search videos on the Logos tutorial site for the Andersen-Forbes. The videos imply that there are more, that demonstrate some searches. However, I don't see them. Anybody know if they are coming?

Thanks so much for any help!

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Mike Aubrey

1. What do the asterisks mean at the various levels? eg CL*; sometimes they are there and sometimes not. I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.

The asterisks mark what constituent is the head of its phrase: Thus you will always see * on verbs always moving up to VPs all the way up to their clause. Nouns are the heads of noun phrases, etc. The only odd one in this is the prepositional phrase. For the life of me, I continue to wonder why they have decided to annotate the object of the preposition noun phrase as the head of the prepositional phrase. There's absolutely no linguistic basis for that.

For a helpful survey of Cascadia, here's a blog post I wrote a few months back. I've been meaning to incorporate parts of it to the wiki for some time, but haven't had a chance just yet.

http://evepheso.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/the-theory-behind-the-cascadia-syntax-graphs/

Eric L. Keefer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/138836#Comment_138836

Thanks so much for your help and quick response. That clears it up. Also, your link looks very helpful. I'll spend some time digesting this!

Thanks again.

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/138836#Comment_138836

For a helpful survey of Cascadia, here's a blog post I wrote a few months back. I've been meaning to incorporate parts of it to the wiki for some time, but haven't had a chance just yet.

http://evepheso.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/the-theory-behind-the-cascadia-syntax-graphs/

Sorry, this is as clear as mud.

Mike Aubrey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/138862#Comment_138862

Sorry, this is as clear as mud.

The last paragraph & pictures (figs. 3 & 4) of searches are the essential part for understanding the significance of the framework in terms of practicality.