L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #130 Subordinating conjunctions

MJ. Smith

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This tip is inspired by the forum post: Greek Subordinating conjunctions - Logos Forums

This topic provides a good example of why there are different morphologies for the same language within Logos. The easy way to tell how a particular morphology classifies items is to enter @ into the search argumeent which brings up a series of pick menus for the specified morphology. For Logos Greek morphology this provides:

Notice that the subtypes do not include a subordinating class, so this morpology, the common morphology in reverse interlinears, does not serve our purpose easily.

However, the Friberg morphology does meet our needs.

Use the parallel resources feature to add a translation, run the search and the results are:

GRAMCORD morphology provides a different challenge as there are many types of conjunctions that are subordinating.

Fortunately, one may choose multiple items in the pick list; in the search argument these multiple values appear within square brackets.

The results: Note that the count for this morphology is significantly lower that the count for Friberg. This should reinforce the fact that morphology is a systematic naming convention imposed on the language (corpus). Furthermore, the convention is imposed on the Greek not the English translation.

The final Greek morphology in my library, Swansons, like Logos, does not serve our purpose.

Dave Hooton

The results: Note that the count for this morphology is significantly lower that the count for Friberg. This should reinforce the fact that morphology is a systematic naming convention imposed on the language (corpus). Furthermore, the convention is imposed on the Greek not the English translation.

To complete the downward spiral Lexham SGNT has 3275 Subordinate Clauses. This is significantly lower. I don't trust any of them[:)]