Talk:Serer lexicon

Nouns

How many sections do we want for nouns, and do we have principled reasons for dividing the sortable lists into multiple parts? This actually seems like it might hinder analysis at this point. Faytak 07:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

I actually agree with Matt here -- it seems that the priority should be on keeping all of the nouns and verbs together. If you want to make a particular category identifiable by a semantic field, add a separate column where you can put sortable semantic information (body parts, abstract nouns, etc). --jenks 16:05, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Verbs

A second point is about the verbs: I think that the verbs should probably be arranged so that each verb gets one entry row, with different inflected forms in different columns. This allows the whole paradigm to be seen side by side for each verb. --jenks 16:05, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Is anyone in favor of having two columns instead of one for Verbs? We now know that verbs have plural and singular stem forms that vary like noun plurals and singulars, so it might be good to catalogue the sorts of alternations we see. Faytak 20:13, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Adjectives

Should we distinguish whether adjectives are derived from verbs or not? There are definitely different subsets of adjectives that have different sorts of morphology associated with them, at the very least: some are derived from stative verbs, and some don't seem to be in the same way. Faytak 02:41, 15 October 2012 (UTC)