{"id":1065,"date":"2016-10-07T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?page_id=1065"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:38:29","slug":"categories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/grammar\/categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grammatical Categories<\/h2>\n<p>In FieldWorks Language Explorer, grammatical categories are very important. Not only do they fill the traditional &#8220;Part Of Speech&#8221; tagging role, but they also let us describe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How words are put together (which affixes may or must appear, and in what order)<\/li>\n<li>Inflection Classes (e.g. gender and noun classes)<\/li>\n<li>What features are borne by morphemes of the category (e.g. person &amp; number)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more detailed information, please read the <a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.languagetechnology.org\/fieldworks\/Documentation\/Intro%20to%20Parsing\/ConceptualIntroduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conceptual Introduction to FLEx.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the screenshot, we see the hierarchical categories system of our made-up test language, <em>Kalaba<\/em>. On the right side, we see the detail view of the &#8220;transitive verb&#8221;. Notice the <em>Affix Template<\/em>, which shows the simple &#8220;slot and filler&#8221; table used to describe how words of this type are composed, both for documentation purposes as well as constraining the included morphological parser. <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/CategoryShowingTemplate-large.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/CategoryShowingTemplate.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of CategoryShowingTemplate view\" title=\"Click to view larger image\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/grammar\/categories\/\"\" title=\"CategoryShowingTemplate\" \/>When you start a new FieldWorks project, Language Explorer supplies a few, basic grammatical categories. Later, as you find that you need to add more, Language Explorer provides a &#8220;grammatical category catalog&#8221; to help you find and add categories to your inventory. This catalog is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/emeld.org\/tools\/ontology.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOLD ontology<\/a>. Since this catalog is read from an XML file, you could customize that file to reflect the categories used in your area, and then distribute that file to your colleagues.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/FLEx_GramCatDialog.gif\" rel=\"lightbox\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/FLEx_GramCatDialog_400.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of GramCatDialog view\" title=\"Click to view larger image\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/grammar\/categories\/\"\" title=\"GramCatDialog\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammatical Categories In FieldWorks Language Explorer, grammatical categories are very important. Not only do they fill the traditional &#8220;Part Of Speech&#8221; tagging role, but they also let us describe: How words are put together (which affixes may or must appear, and in what order) Inflection Classes (e.g. gender and noun classes) What features are borne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1063,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1065\/revisions\/4918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}