proposal morphological database classical greek writing seek input proposal tentatively plan submit neh end summer idea fairly simple want use morphological parser developing past eight years generate morphological analyses every unique string thesaurus linguae graecae tlg database greek texts available cd rom uc irvine tlg large 42 million words present new version due later year 57 million words greek highly inflected language bad georgian others verb prefixes millions different forms tlg corpus extends thousand years includes virtually literary greek thus would support diachronic well synchronic linguistic analysis would like know anything could would make work greek useful linguistics community general classicists need database would exciting could stimulate additional work working summary project follows proposal outline fairly succinct c 7 pages full greek lend readily transliteration would like see copy please send us mail address send one casual reactions summary however welcome note reactions need positive seem worthwhile thing pursue would love know thanks gregory crane department classics boylston 319 harvard university cambridge 02138 crane ikaros harvard edu linguistic database classical greek project extend existing parser classical greek expanding database stems cover majority words attested literary record use database create morphologically parsed database 1 000 000 unique strings available tlg end publish database analyzed strings databases stems endings drive parser parser resulting databases essential piece scholarly infrastructure 1 revolutionize current searching techniques tlg greek databases 2 make possible apply sophisticated retrieval text analysis greek texts 3 provide basic crucial lookup tool aid nonspecialists fields e g philosophy political science religion seek work directly greek database note document sketch possible proposal submitted neh end august 1992 effect proposal proposal thus open revision points