glossing

[itrytobe]

i have to write a syntax assignment, and even though i have less than 500 words of normal text, i'm already on two and a half pages simply because of all the example sentences. i mean, for each Russian sentence, i need four lines (plus blank lines before and after)! there's the transliterated Russian sentence, with separated morphemes and movement gaps and stuff; there's the gloss; there's the English translation; and on top of that there's also the Russian sentence in the normal orthography, which is optional but which i include for my own sanity. because the transliteration with the morpheme separation is almost as illegible as the gloss.

also, this is probably like, an exercise in generativism, but i can't help ending the assignment with a bold claim that this stuff makes more sense from a usage-based perspective.