BUG: Issues with Heiser, Michael S., and Vincent M. Setterholm. Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Databas

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,072 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I recently had reason to use the resource for definitions of the parts of speech for Greek and Hebrew excluding the inscriptions - a subset that should be core for Logos. I found some items completely missing and some items under different names. The different names were reasonably identified by a native English speaker familiar with the terminology but I would hate to be an English-as-a-2nd-language speaker trying to navigate to them. Giving Logos positioning in the market place, I would consider this a significant problem. The items I found in my sample:

  • article
  • contraction under contracted
  • deictic word
  • fragment
  • function tag
  • interrogative adverb
  • miscellany
  • modal word under modal
  • negation under negative
  • number
  • paragraph maker or nun
  • proper name under proper noun
  • sentence particle
  • verb finite under finite
  • verb infinitive under infinitive
  • verb participle under participle
  • verbal noun

In number this means out of 36 terms for parts-of-speech used in Greek & Hebrew 17 terms (47%) were not given definitions in the form given in the morphology selector and of the 17, 10 lacked any definition at all.

This sort of sloppiness is bad for the student user and bad for the Logos image.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    bumping in order to get attention/response from appropriate people.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Jimmy Parks
    Jimmy Parks Member, Logos Employee Posts: 113
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1279578#Comment_1279578

    Thank you MJ. I'll make sure that we have these identified and that all of our morpho-syntactic labels have definitions to go along with them. 
    Were there other resources that did contain labels and definitions for these grammatical constructs?

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,072 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1279687#Comment_1279687

    Were there other resources that did contain labels and definitions for these grammatical constructs?

    I'm sorry but I didn't check as my list lacked ties to the specific morphologies that used the term. I'll do some checking this week.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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