Morph Search

Jim Wisland
Jim Wisland Member Posts: 7 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

How do you search for an "attributive adjective" so that only those adjectives that have the definite article before them are highlighted?

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  • Gary O'Neal
    Gary O'Neal Member Posts: 584 ✭✭

    I would use a syntactical search. Because there are three positions in which the art/adj can occur, it's probably best to search for each separately. That way you can trouble shoot each one. After you get them each worked out, you could combine them with 'Or'. Here's what I came up with for the 2nd attrib position.

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    This search finds all those mentioned in Wallace's GGBB, p. 307. It may include some it shouldn't -- I haven't went through the list in detail. It finds 270 results in total.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,142

    How do you search for an "attributive adjective" so that only those adjectives that have the definite article before them are highlighted?

    A Morph Search for @D BEFORE 1 word @J will work provided you have a Greek bible with morphology like NA27; @D is the article (for more explanation see wiki http://wiki.logos.com/Morphological_Search). For the "Attributive" use in relation to nouns (@N) you can be more precise  eg.

    @N BEFORE 1 word @D BEFORE 1 word @J

    or

    @D BEFORE 1 word @J BEFORE 1 word @N

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  • Gary O'Neal
    Gary O'Neal Member Posts: 584 ✭✭

    How do you search for an "attributive adjective" so that only those adjectives that have the definite article before them are highlighted?

    In playing around with the syntax search, I noticed that the Lexham database has already identified attributive adj --If you want to include only those with an article, you can add that. Note however, that this will miss those which may have a postpositive between the art and adj.

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    Note also that attributive adj do not have to have an article.

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