Thanks Tim ! On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:50 AM, tim buckwalter <tim.buckwal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello Kais, > > I wish I had the time to assist in this worthy enterprise. (Maybe next > year, inshalla...) > For now, please note the following mistakes in the documentation on verb > forms: > > * the example given for Quadriliteral II (AiToma>an~a) is mislabeled as > Quad II -- it's Quad IV. > * in the Dictionary itself, AiToma>an~a is mislabeled as Triliteral Form > XII -- > http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?root=TmAn#%284:103:11%29 > > There are some very attractively produced tables of all the verb forms and > participles in Karin Ryding's grammar: > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reference-Grammar-Modern-Standard-Grammars/dp/0521777712/ > > Best, > Tim > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Kais Dukes <k...@kaisdukes.com> wrote: > >> Dear members of the comp-quran mailing list, >> >> >> In version 0.3 of the Quranic Arabic Corpus, we had a new user-contributed >> section on Arabic verb forms (see: >> http://corpus.quran.com/documentation/verbforms.jsp). This information is >> useful, so that now annotators can quickly look up what a form I to form X >> verb should look like in general. My question is this - does anyone know of >> any free online material for form I to form X active participles, passive >> participles and verbal nouns? Essentially, I’m looking for some good online >> material that shows what these derived forms look like as nouns, as a >> general guide. So for example, just exactly what is a form X passive >> participle? >> >> >> The reason I am asking this, is that recently, on the website's message >> board a lot of inter-annotator discussion has been on the precise tagging of >> the forms of nouns derived from verbs. >> >> >> Even better, would anyone be interested in contributing a brief one to two >> page essay on this? If so, we can incorporate it into the next version of >> the website and the next version of the annotation guidelines. I would be >> happy to add your name(s) - if you wish - the list of prominent website >> contributors: http://corpus.quran.com/contact.jsp. As further >> encouragement, if you contribute, you're work is likely to be of value to a >> great many people. The Quranic Arabic Corpus website ( >> http://corpus.quran.com), is now used by over different 2,500 people each >> day, and has grown into one of the most popular Quranic research websites >> online. >> >> >> Looking forward to hearing from you! P.S. If it’s okay, please feel free >> to hit “reply all” to this e-mail so that you can share your reply with >> other members of the comp-quran mailing list. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> -- Kais Dukes >> >> >> School of Computing, >> >> University of Leeds >> >> http://www.kaisdukes.com >> >> >> >
