Morphology Wildcards

Doug Dunbar

Hi! I was trying to do a moph search in Ephesians  for all imperative verbs. I haven't been able to find a video or posting on this - it should be simple....

Anyway, I selected to search the NA27 with morph, limited to Eph. In the search box I entered "lemma:*@V???M (morphology codes from the drop down list that came up after hitting the @.  This returned 0 results and took almost 10 seconds. I'm obviously not in the know for how to enter morph searches in Logos.

My assumption is that the '*' in the lemma field should be an open wildcard - searching for any lemma (this may be my mistake - but it is a common long standing computer thing...). The Mophology codes after the @ were determined by Logos as I clicked on Verb and Imperative. Leavening all else out of the search to give the most results for imperative verbs in the book.

BibleWorks 8 search was easy to set up, and took 0.25 seconds (running XP under VM Fusion), returning the results I was looking for - and why I keep going back to BW for morphological searches like this...  I know it's probably just my ignorance and inexperience with Logos, but after two years, I find these kinds of tasks in Logos non-intuative.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

The Mophology codes after the @ were determined by Logos as I clicked on Verb and Imperative.

Initially chose resource: NA27 w/ McReynolds English Interlinear (NA 27 Int.), which has Logos Greek Morphological tagging:

Entered @ to show drop down menu, then clicked Verb, Imperative, and blue arrow.

... search took 0.25 seconds

Logos 4.5b search in the Prison Epistles for imperative verbs took a bit longer @ 2.77 seconds:

My assumption is that the '*' in the lemma field should be an open wildcard - searching for any lemma (this may be my mistake - but it is a common long standing computer thing...).

Logos 4 does not need * wildcard in Morph Search to look for all lemma's.  Caveat: Logos 4 searches using * wildcard are slow.

In the search box I entered "lemma:*@V???M (morphology codes from the drop down list that came up after hitting the @.  This returned 0 results and took almost 10 seconds.

Morph code for imperative looks a bit odd.  Logos Greek Morphology code (verb imperative) is @V??M (majority of Greek resources in Logos 4) while Gramcord Greek Morphology code is @V????M (in two NA27 resources with Gramcord).

Note: searching NA27 Int. for @V???M finds 0 results.

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