Missatge de Anuradha Pandey <anuradha200...@gmail.com> del dia dc., 5 de
maig 2021 a les 15:51:
> Hello everyone,
> I have been working on a new language pair, and I was having a look at the
> word forms defined in the Hindi paradigms. The "mfn" tag seems suspicious
> for Hindi. It stands for gender-neutral by definition, like "it" in
> English. Hindi nouns have two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine.
> There is no neutral gender for nouns in Hindi. The mfn tag has been used at
> 3 places -
>
> 1. "गलत__adj"
> 2. "स/ा__adj"
> 3. "एक__det"
>
> The last paradigm makes sense since a determiner can be
> gender-neutral. However, I was curious about their usage in the case of
> adjectives. The definitions of these have used the "mfn" tag along with the
> "sp" tag(which is wherein singular and plural are equivalent I suppose). I
> couldn't come up with an example where the adjective is gender-neutral and
> are singular and plural are equivalent.
>
Even if the determiner has the same form for both genders, masculine and
feminine, I would expect an "mf" tag, not an "mfn" one.
In fact the whole paradigm is quite strange:
<pardef n="एक__det">
<e><p><l></l><r><s n="det"/><s n="indef"/><s n="obl"/><s n="mfn"/><s
n="sg"/></r></p></e>
</pardef>
So, there is only one single form, just for singular and for the oblique
case, and the order of the tags is not the expected: gender, number and
case (as the adjectives and the nous have).
Other paradigms determinants have other unexpected forms, with only one
form and without any gender and/or case tags.
This kind of things are unexpected for a released language. If these
paradigms are changed in the Hindi dictionary and the Hindi-Urdu released
pair relies on them, it could not work.
Hèctor
>
> If someone who has worked with the Hindi dictionary can clarify the logic
> behind using this tag, and give an example for better clarity, it would be
> really helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Anuradha Pandey
> IRC: Anuradha_Pandey
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