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You are back. So glad... Craig -----Original Message----- From: hh <h...@livecode.org> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 2:15 pm Subject: Re: Jane Austen's peculiarity To come back to Richmond's opening post, one could think about using the following, avoiding complex offset constructions. First collect word 1 of each item of a string (not too large, size adapted to your machine), where the itemdelimiter is "were" or any other word (conditional) that filters a targeted phrasing in or out. Strings as itemdelimiters are possible in LC 7 (one may also use "split" and "combine" with such delimiters) and this is pretty fast. This could narrow the lists and cases you have to investigate further. Hermann > Sun Aug 9 01:44:36 CEST 2015 by Alex Tweedly. > I think I'd agree that a conditional clause should be equired (could it > be any of 'if', 'unless', 'whether', ...)? > > Otherwise, you'd be finding false positives like: > > I gave two shillings to my brother and last night they _were returned_ > to me. > > -- Alex. > >> Sat Aug 8 18:42:51 CEST 2015 by Richmond. >> Jane Austen [amongst others] uses an interesting type of grammatical >> construction of this sort: >> >> After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton to inquire if Mr. Wickham >> _were returned_, and to lament over his absence from the Netherfield ball. >> >> Pride and Prejudice. >> >> I would like to analyse a million word corpus that I have been granted >> access to for this type of construction. >> >> However, I don't want to find examples of only 'were returned', but all >> examples of >> >> were + infinitive / preterite / past participle >> >> and, presumably for that I shall have to use wildcards . . . >> >> OR ??? >> >> Richmond. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode