Updates on Etymology Module

[John McCrae <john.mccrae@insight-centre.org>]

Hi all,

I haven't got round to updating the DocBook yet, but I examined Bowers and Romary's paper and came up with the following proposed model for etymology in LEXIDMA

• Both entries and senses can have etymologies (according to Jack and Laurent... I am a bit suspicious of sense etymologies still)
• Following Jack and Laurent, it is probably best to have a single object 'Etymon' in place of derivation/cognate/borrowing/etc. with a type parameter
• Etymons can have grammatical labels like inflected forms in case a particular form is the source of the etymology
• Etymons can be compounded to handle mixed etymologies (e.g., polylingual from poly- (Greek) and lingua (Latin))
• Etymologies can have dates associated with them
• There should be a relation system to connected etymological forms with entries, senses and other etymons
• We should support non-standard language tagging, but this is probably part of the Controlled Vocabularies module.

We can discuss this further on Monday.

Regards,

John