Search for Iota Subscript

[John F. Hart]

How do I search for nouns with an iota subscript, and exclude nouns that merely have a final vowel. Example: if I want to find all nouns with a final alpha-iota subscript, but not with just an alpha, how do I do this? I couldn't find this in the manuals I have.

[David Lang]

You're searching for inflected forms, so you need to enclose your search in quotes.

 

By default, Accordance ignores breathing marks, iota subscripts, and accents so that you don't have to get those things perfectly right to get a successful search. In this case, you want the iota subscript to be considered, so you need to place an equal sign in front of the word. Like this:

 

"=*ᾳ"

 

To specify that these must be nouns, add a grammatical tag:

 

"=*ᾳ"@ [NOUN]

 

Hope this helps.

[John F. Hart]

Thanks. I had the quote marks, but not with the = (equal) sign. I get confused with the = sign and the quote marks. I generally have to go back and read things on them repeatedly. Any easy ways to keep their functions more easily in my memory?

[Helen Brown]

If you use the vocabulary list (Enter Inflected Forms) you can specify exact forms or not via the Checkbox. The correct symbols will be used automatically.

[David Lang]

Think of the quotes as representing the word as it was spoken (written), that is, the inflected form of the word as opposed to the lexical form.

 

Think of the equals sign as meaning that nothing gets left out, that is, an exact search for that sequence of letters and marks.

 

When used without the quotes, the equals sign indicates that you want to find an exact lemma as distinguished from its homographs by the accents and breathing marks.

 

When used within the quotes, the equals sign means that you want to find that exact inflected form (including all marks and accents).

 

The Quick Reference Guide PDF contains a helpful chart summarizing all this.

 

Hope this helps.

[Helen Brown]

Dr. J. does a great job of explaining these symbols in his Greek Searches podcasts.

[John F. Hart]

If you use the vocabulary list (Enter Inflected Forms) you can specify exact forms or not via the Checkbox. The correct symbols will be used automatically.

 

Yes, I think that could help. But I was looking for all nouns ending in alpha-iota subscript (ᾳ). David's formula was what I needed ("=*ᾳ"). When I'm not looking for a particular inflected form, I'll need a formula like that. I also look at the other items mentioned here (the podcast, etc.).