TIP OF THE DAY 8: Name.identify > Morphology search

MJ. Smith

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QUESTION: How do I tell which morphologies identify proper nouns, person, deities, and gentilics?

SOFTWARE:

All available morphologies   Andersen-Forbes Hebrew Morphology Biblia Hebraica transcripta (BHt) Morphology Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Morphology (CAL) Aramaic Morphology Friberg Greek Morphology GRAMCORD Greek Morphology Leiden Peshitta Institute Syriac Morphology Logos Aramaic Inscriptions Morphology Logos Aramaic Morphology Logos Hebrew Morphology Logos Greek Morphology Logos Latin Morphology Logos Semitic Inscriptions Morphology Sedra 3 Syriac Morphology Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible (SESB) Aramaic Morphology Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible (SESB)  Hebrew Morphology Swanson Greek Morphology Werkgroep Informatica (WIVU) Aramaic Morphology Werkgroep Informatica (WIVU) Hebrew Morphology Westminster Aramaic Morphology Westminster Hebrew Morphology
Noun > Proper noun/Proper name   Andersen-Forbes Hebrew Morphology Biblia Hebraica transcripta (BHt) Morphology Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Morphology (CAL) Aramaic Morphology Leiden Peshitta Institute Syriac Morphology Logos Aramaic Inscriptions Morphology Logos Aramaic Morphology Logos Hebrew Morphology Logos Latin Morphology Logos Semitic Inscriptions Morphology Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible (SESB) Aramaic Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible (SESB) Hebrew Morphology Werkgroep Informatica (WIVU) Aramaic Morphology Werkgroep Informatica (WIVU) Hebrew Morphology Westminster Aramaic Morphology Westminster Hebrew Morphology
Human   Andersen-Forbes Hebrew Morphology Biblia Hebraica transcripta (BHt) Morphology Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Morphology (CAL) Aramaic Morphology Logos Semitic Inscriptions Morphology	Deity   Andersen-Forbes Hebrew Morphology Biblia Hebraica transcripta (BHt) Morphology Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Morphology (CAL) Aramaic Morphology Logos Semitic Inscriptions Morphology	Gentilic/Collective   Biblia Hebraica transcripta (BHt) Morphology Logos Aramaic Inscriptions Morphology Logos Semitic Inscriptions Morphology Westminster Hebrew Morphology

 

1. Open the Bible with morphology of your choice.
2. Open a search panel.
3. Set the search type to “Morphology”.
4. Set the scope to “Open books” or to your Bible.
5. Enter @ into the search argument input box.
6. Select noun.
7. Observe if on the second selection window you have options for proper nouns, persons, deities, gentilics or similar classes with minor differences in vocabulary.

QUESTION: How do I determine what morphology applies to my text?

SOFTWARE: Fortunately, the morphology pick list opened with the @ sign offers only options that apply to the books you are searching.

1. Open a Search panel.
2. Set the search type to morphology.
3. Set the corpus/scope to either the books you wish to search or to open books.
4. Enter @ to begin entering the parameters that make up your search string.  The first line of the menu allows you to select one morphology coding scheme that applies to your books.
5. The begin entering the parameters for the morphology string code. Note you are most likely in this case to be selecting noun on the initial menu, after which a second menu with the parameters related to nouns will appear.

 

QUESTION: Using morphology, how do I make the identification of personal names more precise?

SOFTWARE: The methods we have discussed so far:

Method	Hebrew OT	Greek OT	Greek NT	Precision	Notes
Factbook tag filter	Yes	Yes	Yes	People excluding implied subjects and pronouns	Includes all references not limited to personal names
Semantic domains: Louw-Nida	No	No	Yes	Proper names of people in the New Testament only
Semantic domains: Andersen Forbes	Yes	No	no	References to humans or deities in the Hebrew Old Testament	Includes all references not limited to personal names.
Syntactic force	No	No	Yes	All uses of proper nouns

 

Notice that only the Factbook tag filter covers the Deuterocanon/apocrypha. Tools are also specific to Greek or to Hebrew/Aramaic. There is no morphology that will provide more accurate results than the Louw-Nida semantic domains. Again, no morphology provides more accurate results for the Deuterocanon than the Factbook tag filter. However, for the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures there are morphologies which not only permit the identification of proper nouns but also may permit subdivisions such as humans, deities, and gentilics.

I will use Richter, Wolfgang, Christian Riepl, and Johann Peter Rechenmacher. Biblia Hebraica Transcripta. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016 as my example. Assume I am looking for individual personal names.

1. Open Biblia Hebraica Transcripta
2. Open a search panel.
3. Set the scope of the search to Biblia Hebraica Transcripta.
4. Set the search type to morphology.
5. Enter @ into the search argument box.
6. Select proper noun from the selection popup; note in most morphologies the initial choice is “noun” rather than “proper noun”
7. Select “Person Name” from the second selection popup.
8. Hit enter to run the search. Note that the search argument is morph.bht.t:E.

QUESTION: In a morphology search, how do I specify multiple values for a single element?

SOFTWARE: I will use Richter, Wolfgang, Christian Riepl, and Johann Peter Rechenmacher. Biblia Hebraica Transcripta. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016 as my example. Assume I am looking for collective and individual personal names.

1. Open Biblia Hebraica Transcripta
2. Open a search panel.
3. Set the scope of the search to Biblia Hebraica Transcripta.
4. Set the search type to morphology.
5. Enter @ into the search argument box.
6. Select proper noun from the selection popup; note in most morphologies the initial choice is “noun” rather than “proper noun”
7. Select “Person Name” from the type section of the second selection popup.
8. Select “Collective Name” from the type section of the second selection popup.
9. Hit enter to run the search. Note that the search argument is morph.bht.t:E[CP] The brackets indicate multiple values for the same parameter.

QUESTION: In a morphology search, how do I negate a parameter?

SOFTWARE: I will use Richter, Wolfgang, Christian Riepl, and Johann Peter Rechenmacher. Biblia Hebraica Transcripta. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016 as my example. Assume I am looking for collective and individual personal names excluding gentilics.

1. Open Biblia Hebraica Transcripta
2. Open a search panel.
3. Set the scope of the search to Biblia Hebraica Transcripta.
4. Set the search type to morphology.
5. Enter @ into the search argument box.
6. Select proper noun from the selection popup; note in most morphologies the initial choice is “noun” rather than “proper noun”
7. Select place name from the type section of the second selection popup.
8. Surround the place name character with square brackets and put a negating caret^ immediately after the opening bracket.
9. Hit enter to run the search. Note that the search argument is morph.bht.t:E[^O]

 

QUESTION: How do I save my search?

SOFTWARE: LOGOS/VERBUM has a built in save function.

1. In the search panel, build the search that you wish to save.
2. Click on the star to the right of the search argument; on hover, the star displays “Save search to Favorites”.
3. This will open a Favorites panel, if necessary and show the saved search at the bottom.
4. Some time latter in real life, click on the saved search in Favorites. This will open a search panel with the search information reinstated and run the search.

Note this is especially useful on projects where you are constantly running searches with a single parameter changing values.