As per the documentation, extra arguments to the Porter stemmer are handed on to the underlying tokenizer:
http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/artifact/9eca0ea509ae3e4d?ln=544-546 Example syntax a few lines below: http://www.sqlite.org/docsrc/artifact/9eca0ea509ae3e4d?ln=556 However, the code does not follow the documentation and specifies 0 instead of the argument parameters: http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/30f97a8c74683797?ln=540 Ralf