Collections of tools to use for linguistic data analysis
Because people keep making and sharing misleading/invalid/unreliable “data analysis” posts about fanfic and related fan-studies topics and then get fussy when people point out the issues with their methods.
You don’t need to be a professional computer scientist, linguist, data analyst, etc. If you’re sharing data, you should do the best you can to make sure you’re as methodologically correct as you possibly can be, and with the internet at your fingertips that is now easier than ever.
Links below the cut so this post doesn’t get annoyingly long to scroll past.
Tools for Corpus Linguistics
corpus-analysis.com
About: “A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 286 tools used in corpus compilation and analysis.”
Natural Language Toolkit
nltk.org
About: “NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active discussion forum.”
About: “Getting started with speech and language processing tools.”
AntLab (Laurence Anthony)
laurenceanthony.net
About: “Welcome to AntLab! This site showcases my various software tools, publications, and presentations.”
Linguistics Resources: Corpora
guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282869&p=1884909
About: “Electronic resources supporting teaching and research in linguistics. Included are indexes to articles in scholarly journals, online full-text sources, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other resources.”
i recently had a conversation with someone about ti-basic. and it got me to remember this MINEsweeper program i made 5 year ago on the ti-84.
a part of ti-basic programs i really admire is how unreadable they are. no-indentation, the 1-letter variables, the common exclusion of comments, its amazing; the core mindset of ti-basic is to hammer something out in 5 hours and to never look back.
anyway, i spend a little time to annotate that MINEsweeper program.
it honestly feels weird for a ti-basic program to be this readable
this is what a section of it looked like before hand btw
There is something both hopeful & immensely frustrating about light pollution. And the really funny thing about it is those feelings come from the exact same concept.
There's a hopeful thing about it because light pollution is the only from of pollution which if everything were to come to a stop today then it would just be back to pretty much how things used to be before the pollution happened.
The fucking frustrating thing about it, is it would be so easy to just get rid of it (which i get why they don't) or at the very least vastly mitigate the issue (this however they could & should do) but the people who could actually solve the problem can't be bothered to get their heads out of their asses & do some positive change for once.
its always a struggle coming up with believable morphology/morphophonological-variation. my solution was to give ariska fuck-all morphology and give explainable variations of what little there was.
plurality? nah we dont have that, except for hurakan, which has a collective hurakanakan (historical final reduplication derivation).
tense? -(h)ta and thats it, oh and siri > suruhta but thats the only irregularity with verbs. well i guess there's more irregularity with verbal category, depending on the speaker mawi might be a stative verb, or an intransitive, which would have to be mawican if you want to apply an object to it.
such a struggle this shit is; i think its more now about someone just saying their love for chickens as a food source, given the body parts that show up.
Lexique pro! its my preferred dictionary software (you can even export the data to a website! heres the cryšk one for example https://tok-pidgeon.neocities.org/crysk%20Lexicon%20-%20Copy/lexicon/ (shameless plug))
If you plan on using lexique pro at all, i also recoment you read "Making Dictionaries, A guide to lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter" (by David F. Coward & Charles E. Grimes) which instructs you on the same basis "tag"-system that lexique pro works off of (its also just a banger book)
First of all, WTH is that orthagraphy?! Seriously, it's consistent, but my brain is doing cartwheels and backflips reading.
Second of all, I just want to say that it's good to find another fellow conlanger who likes analytical features in their conlangs. Which I guess I can ask what separates isolating like particles and auxiliaries features from synthetic ones like affixes.
Seriously, I have a conlang in the works that has both affixes and particles for the same features but one is used formally and the other is used familiarly.
Anyways, good to see you, expect me to pester you about conlanging stuff, lol.
yeah the orthography is fucked. its based on another friends latin-abugida based orthography (except better because i found a way to exclude /a/ from ever having a grapheme!!!!/j), but like its 100% regular and is second nature to read for me now.
omg same!!!! i feel like the difference is syntactic freedom (i.e bound "affixes" dont stereotypically allow other unbound morphemes in-between them lmfao).
also i must ask about that conlang you mentioned, are the affixes diachronically related to the particles? or are the particles innovations based off of a different lexical source?
UGHHHHHH I HATE WRITING THE SHIT IM NOT INTERESTED IN, bro i dont want to go over verb catagories, theres NOTHING interesting about them, but i have to set my basis for the rest of the document DAMN, what else could i even include in this seciont?!?!?!?1
