How to use the Khanty Database
The database can be searched in three different ways, which cannot be combined. The use of a particular type of search inactivates the other two. The following options are available:
- We can search for full annotated texts by choosing a title from the drop-down list in the box “Search for full text”.
- We can look for a word or expression in Khanty, English, Hungarian, or in any language in the box “Search in text”. The language can be selected from the drop-down list in the "Language" box. The word, or string of words to be looked for has to be written in the box “Search word”.
- We can also search for part of speech and gloss in the box “Search for POS and gloss”. The parts of speech and glosses can be selected from drop-down lists. Upon selecting a part of speech, we get every sentence whose annotation contains it. If we also select one or more gloss simultaneously, we will only get the cases where the given part of speech appears combined with the given glosses, i.e., if the POS and the glosses belong to one and the same word.
Example:
If we select the part of speech “verb (v)” from the drop-down list in the “POS” box, and the glosses “1st person (1)” and “plural (pl)” from the drop-down list in the “Gloss” box, we get all the sentences where the gloss 1pl appears on a word categorized as v in the 2nd line of annotation, among them the sentence containing jăntəɣtəw:
As the different types of search cannot be combined, a new search can be started by clicking on “Reset”, which deletes the former search conditions.
The numbers on the left above each hit mark the number of the text containing the given sentence, and the number of the sentence in the given text. For example 12/3 means that the sentene is the third sentence of text 12.
Clicking on the symbol () on the right above the sentence allows the User to copy the sentence together with the glosses and the translation. The sentence is stored on the clipboard, and the User can copy and paste it by hitting Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V).