[Tex/LaTex] How to draw arrows between words in linguistic examples

arrowslinguistics

This is what I'm after: I'd like to have the sentence 'John loves his mother.' displayed with an arrow running from 'his' to 'John'. I looked at gb4e, but I found the documentation confusing and I haven't been able to make it work.

Best Answer

Use TikZ

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\tikzstyle{every picture}+=[remember picture]
\tikzstyle{na} = [shape=rectangle,inner sep=0pt,text depth=0pt]
\tikz\node[na](word1){John}; loves \tikz\node[na](word2){his}; mother.
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay]
  \path[->,red,thick](word2) edge [out=90, in=90] (word1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

output

I don't know what type of arrow you want =)

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[Tex/LaTex] Labeling linguistic examples with language information

If you use Alexis Dimitriadis' version of cgloss4e available here as cgloss.sty you can put language information right aligned with the first line of the example. This is IMO a very nice way to format such information, and quite common in the field.

It is not possible with this solution to put right aligned materials on the same line as the gloss itself, but it is possible (if needed) to put material on the \glt line.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

 
\begin{exe}  
\ex \gll    J\'anos h\'aza\\ 
            John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference}) 
    \glt    `John's house'  
\end{exe}

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Solution also works with `linguex`

Another popular package for formatting linguistic examples is the linguex package. Since linguex also uses cgloss4e, the solution given above will also work. Here's the same example using the linguex commands. The order of loading the packages matters: cgloss must be loaded after linguex is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

\exg. 
   J\'anos h\'aza\\ 
   John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference}) 
   \glt    `John's house'  

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

output of code

[Tex/LaTex] Double head and hook arrows of length x

The idea of using TikZ is good; but better yet is to use tikz-cd:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}

\begin{document}
\[
\begin{tikzcd}
 F_1 \arrow{rr}{\phi_1} \arrow[two heads]{dr} && F_0 \arrow[two heads]{r}{\phi_0} & M \\
     & \ker(\phi_0) \arrow[hookrightarrow]{ur}
\end{tikzcd}
\]
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Labeling linguistic examples with language information

Solution also works with linguex

[Tex/LaTex] Double head and hook arrows of length x

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Solution also works with `linguex`