Questions tagged [linguistics]
The {linguistics} tag can be used for questions about packages designed primarily for linguists or about typesetting of linguistics-specific material.
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Continuous numbering of examples with gb4e in both main text and footnotes
I would like to continue the numbering of the examples with gb4e from my main text in my footnotes. I guess that this has something to do with resetting the counter for \ex in footnotes, but I do not ...
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Leipzig and glossaries: compatibility problems, and glossary does not appear
I am using the leipzig package, which provides shortcut macros for linguistic gloss abbreviations, and interfaces with the glossaries package to index these abbreviations. I am compiling properly (...
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Prevent linebreak if word begins with hyphen
Words beginning with hyphens such as suffixes in linguistic texts can break right after the hyphen which is undesirable.
To prevent this I know I could do \exhyphenpenalty=10000 or what the answers ...
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gb4e: overwrite italics in first line
Dear Stackexchange community,
For my dissertation I use gb4e for my examples. To get the first line in italics, I use the following code:
\let\eachwordone=\itshape
In some examples, however, I ...
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Preventing page break inside gloss environment
Because of my research interests, my documents are usually filled to the brim with examples in a language that needs to be glossed. For some reason, a lot of my expex glossed examples are split at ...
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How to automatically generate a list of linguistic examples with package linguex?
I am using the linguex package to present linguistic examples. However, I would like to make an appendix at the end which contains all the examples I've used and the page information.
I am asking ...
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Fontenc and tipa
I am layouting my PhD theses in linguistics and I am struggling with the layout of the linguistic examples. Thanks to StackExchange, I could solve the problem of font size (see here). Now, however, I ...
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leipzig package gives glossing abbreviations but does not print glossary
I used leipzig when typesetting my paper to get glossing abbreviations in smallcaps more easily and to automatically generate a glossary. However, I didn't get the package to work as it did for others....
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More than two glossing lines linguex
I am new here. I need some help with the use of linguex. I want to be able to make more than two even up to four glossing lines with that package like in the pdf here. But I fail to do it. Would ...
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parcolumns and qtree
I need to create two columns with different widths. I am trying to use the parcolumns package, but I can't make it work properly. Here is the code and the result:
\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\...
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Movement arrows in gloss (part IV)
In reference to this question:
Movement arrows in gloss (part III)
I have one more question:
Is it possible to get four arrows: Two beneath the text in both directions and two above. Up to now ...
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Cross-referencing custom labeled examples
I'm having trouble with linguex cross-referencing examples with an optional argument as in:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\title{Title}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
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Problem with XeLaTeX xdv2pdf mode and font compilation
I recently upgraded to TexLive2013 (Basic) and this broke the setup I use for letters of recommendation. I need to use a legacy university font which requires XeLaTeX in the mode xdv2pdf. MWE is below
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How can I remove the space between the lines of linguistic examples?
When a linguistic example is very long, the defined format of such long examples in the expex package looks like this. How can I make the first part and second part of this long example align?
\ex[...
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Two inputs in an ot-tableau with numberbed inputs and candidates
I'm intending to make a tableau with tikzpictures as candidates. Now I want to make both inputs (1 and 2) and candidates (a,b,c) numbered – I've tried using mcand but it says it's undefined.
The ...
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Please suggest what went wrong in my code
My code are follow:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
%\newcommand{\cmark}{\ding{51}}%
\newcommand{\xmark}{\ding{55}}
%\usepackage{kpfonts}
%\usepackage{mdwlist}
%\usepackage{fixltx2e}...
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Glossaries \printglossary suddenly not working (0 entries accepted, 3 rejected)
I'm trying to use the glossaries package to make a list of abbreviations used in glossed linguistics examples (for which I use the package gb4e). Basically, the problem I'm getting is that my ...
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Devanagari example with package linguex
This is an MWE formed with package linguex, for having numbered examples. I have also added an English example for the comparison.
%!TeX TS-Program=xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Easiest way to make long passages of glosses
What's the easiest way to do a long passage (like a full page or 2) of glosses? Would be great if I can convert directly from a spreadsheet like a CSV or something. If I can make a 2 column ...
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Attaching text box to tikzpicture (syntax tree)
I'm looking to attach some text to a specific node in this syntax tree with an arrow. Currently, I can't get the text to span over multiple lines, so it just cuts off once it reaches the right margin. ...
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Footnotes not working with linguex and leipzig package
The question says it all. I am using package leipzig for glossing and linguex for examples. This is the code.
\documentclass[8pt]{article}
\usepackage{leipzig}
\usepackage{linguex}
\begin{document}
\...
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alignment between an example in gb4e and the bracketed gloss
I need to have the words on the first line not so wide apart as in ex. 1 (ovaj and zadatak) and ex. 3 (je and vazan). Also, if possible, I'd like to have the bracketed second line more aligned with ...
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Linguistic formulae including feature matrices
I need to include linguistic formulae in my documents. The formulae look like this:
<[X C ]i ↔ [N, sg]i ↔ [SG[SEM]]i > ≈ <[X C əz]j ↔ [N, pl]j ↔ [PL[SEM]j>
The i's and j's should be ...
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Drawing bare phrase structure trees with the forest package
I need to emulate these two trees and I've been trying different things but I can't get them exactly right. Every time I try the nice empty nodes option the tree ends up too elongated vertically, but ...
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How to cause tonal accents to replace tittles in TIPA?
The tittle (dot) in letters like i is replaced by the accent in normal TeX. When TIPA is used to create tonal vowels like í from characters like i and ɨ using \textipa{\'i}, the accent is placed above ...
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