adj-i/adj-ix revisited - closure?

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

Back in 2014 I split the 〜良い and 〜いい adjectives into two
groups with adj-i and adj-ix POS tags respectively to reflect their
different inflection patterns. It actually made rather a mess and in
early 2018 we had a long discussion about how to resolve it. The
discussion fizzled out, and I left the バランスがいい entry sitting in
the edit queue as a reminder. I'd like to try and get it sorted out.

In our discussion we identified three options: (a) stay with the
present split, (b) make then all "adj-ix", (c) make them all "adj-i"
with a note and/or a "no-conj" tag for the 〜いい forms. On 6 March
2018 René Malenfant summarized and scored the options, then on 8
March Francis Bond made some extensive observations and rescored
them.

I've been re-reading of all the discussions and the back-and-forth proposals,
and I think the cleanest solution is to put them back together, with the
special "adj-ix" POS tag to indicate that collectively they behave differently
from the usual 形容詞. As Francis wrote: "I think it is better to acknowledge
this (situation) with a single special tag that encompasses both of them,
and we can add a complete description in one place, ..."

I just checked the entity tag labels in the DTD and they are:
<!ENTITY adj-i "adjective (keiyoushi)">
<!ENTITY adj-ix "adjective (keiyoushi) - yoi/ii class">
so if we take this approach nothing has to be changed there.

I know this approach is not everyone's preferred solution, but
I'd really like to see this one resolved. The main work will be to
put the ~100 entries back together. I'm prepared to do the legwork.

Reactions? Comments?

Jim

-- 
Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
http://nihongo.monash.edu/

-- 
Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
http://nihongo.monash.edu/