Re: [edict-jmdict] Conjugations and PoS tags for だ, くれる

[Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@********>]

On 07/24/2014 09:37 PM, René Malenfant rene_malenfant@hotmail.com [edict-jmdict] wrote:
> I think it’s the overwhelming majority of Japanese sources that say
> it don’t inflect, though (e.g., every dictionary I have access to).
> I agree that it’s an “irregular adjective” (of course), but if it
> really needs its own PoS to show that it is irregular, that PoS
> should have no inflections at all, except for いい. よくない and the others
> belong to よい.

If you are saying that the conjugation tables in the JMdictDB 
submission pages should not conjugate いい, I am fine with 
changing them (a trivial change) to make it so (assuming there
is a consensus on this).

But いい (and friends) should still have a unique PoS because not 
every consumer of JMdict will agree that いい is not conjugatable. 
Someone who wishes to provide a web site for language learners 
that does provides its conjugations should be able to do so easily.

Those who chose to present it as non-conjugatable can simply
ignore the adj-ii (or whatever) tag, or map it to adj-f, or act 
only on the adj-f tag (if it has both).

Giving it a unique PoS serves both points of view (with the 
appropriate explanatory text for the PoS tag.)