Grammar Tips 💡

[dwhieb]

For certain search terms like "a", "an", "the" or "in", "on", "at", it is better for a user to see a brief grammar explanation than any lexical entries. (It might be desirable to show grammatical entries too, but our database doesn't contain those yet.)

For example, a user searching for "on" or "at" should see a description of the locative suffix -ihk (and later, the entry for -ihk as well).

As a first implementation, we can set up a directory of Markdown files (one for each grammar tip), and a lookup function which displays the relevant Markdown file if certain key words are included in the search.

Potential Future Additions

• refer to paradigm tables (especially for pronouns), using the paradigm generator.
• Include links to Arok's grammar pages: https://plainscree.atlas-ling.ca/grammar/

[andrewdotn]

I have the very beginnings of something for this on this branch: https://github.com/andrewdotn/cree-intelligent-dictionary/tree/grammar-tips

[aarppe]

As far as concerns pronouns (see: #514), we already have paradigms for personal and demonstrative pronouns in https://github.com/UAlbertaALTLab/cree-intelligent-dictionary/tree/master/CreeDictionary/res/layouts and/or https://github.com/giellalt/lang-crk/blob/develop/inc/paradigms/non-linguistic/pronoun-personal-basic.layout.tsv and https://github.com/giellalt/lang-crk/blob/develop/inc/paradigms/non-linguistic/pronoun-demonstrative-basic.layout.tsv – these wouldn't necessarily need any FST generation, as the wordforms are what they are.

[aarppe]

As for other such static paradigm sets for closed word classes, in the case of Cree one could present as sets interrogative pronouns and adverbs, quantifier pronouns (which we could reference in the context of definiteness in Cree), and maybe even common prepositions.

[eddieantonio]

As far as concerns pronouns (see: #514), we already have paradigms for personal and demonstrative pronouns in https://github.com/UAlbertaALTLab/cree-intelligent-dictionary/tree/master/CreeDictionary/res/layouts and/or https://github.com/giellalt/lang-crk/blob/develop/inc/paradigms/non-linguistic/pronoun-personal-basic.layout.tsv and https://github.com/giellalt/lang-crk/blob/develop/inc/paradigms/non-linguistic/pronoun-demonstrative-basic.layout.tsv – these wouldn't necessarily need any FST generation, as the wordforms are what they are.

The pronoun paradigms do not work as of yet because the paradigm table code is hard coded to work only with verbs and nouns. In fact, placing these paradigms in the folders crashes itwêwina on startup :/