srs

Authors

Divvun and Giellatekno teams, community members

Software version

2012

Documentation license

GNU GFDL

SVN Revision

$Revision:68217 $

SVN Date

$Date:2013-01-16 11:31:33 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jan 2013) $

This is free and open source Sarsi morphology.

INTRODUCTION TO THE MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF Tsuut'ina.

Analysis symbols

The morphological analyses of wordforms of Tsuut'ina are presented in this system in terms of the following symbols. (It is highly suggested to follow existing standards when adding new tags).

• +Asp asp, aspect
• +Dem D, demonstrative
• +Dim dim, diminutive
• +Du du, dual
• +Err/Orth Substandard, not implemented
• +Foc foc, focus
• +Hab hab, habitual
• +Imprs impers, impersonal (+Impers?)
• +Inc inc, inceptive (Incpt?)
• +Inch incho, inchoative
• +Mod M mode (this seems more like category than property)
• +Mom momentaneous
• N+ N, noun
• +Neg neg, negative
• +Num num, Numeral
• +PI+ postposition incorporation (this is not a Morphosyn tag : -(
• +PNS possessed noun suffix (this is not a Morphosyn tag : -(
• +Part Part, particle
• +Pl pl, Plural
• +Po P, Postposition
• +Prt T, tense (past)
• +Qst Q, question marker
• +Qt Qt, quantifier
• +Sem/Hum Human
• +Sem/Obj O, Object (have a look at this)
• V+ V, verb
• 12Du+ 12, first person dual inclusive
• 13Du+ 13, first person dual exclusive
• 1Pl+ 12, first person plural inclusive
• 1PlO+ 12, first person plural inclusive O
• 1Sg+ 1, first person singular
• 2Du+ 22, second person dual
• 2Sg+ 2
• 3Du+ 33, third person dual
• 3Sg+ 3
• 4Sg+ 4, the other

• PxSg1+ Px
• PxSg2+ Px
• PxSg3+ Px
• PxSg4+ Px

• Ar+ 5, areal subject, it (place, condition, weather)
• Impf+ imp, imperfective (or prefix?)
• Iter+ iter, iterative
• NI+ NI, noun incorporation (probably not a tag)
• Opt+ opt, optative
• Prf+ perf, perfective
• Recipr+ rec, reciprocal
• Refl+ refl, reflexive
• Th+ Th, thematic prefix (probably not a tag)
• Unspec+ 0, Unspecified person
• UnspecO+ 0, Unspecified person
• UnspecS+ 0, Unspecified person
• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©

Prefixes

our flags

• @U.asp.perf@
• @U.asp.ipfv@

• @U.xaH.ON@
• @R.xaH.ON@
• @D.xaH@

• @U.xaM.ON@
• @R.xaM.ON@
• @D.xaM@

• @U.xaL.ON@
• @R.xaL.ON@
• @D.xaL@

• @U.di.ON@
• @R.di.ON@
• @D.di@

• @U.zi.ON@
• @R.zi.ON@
• @D.zi@

• @U.na.ON@
• @R.na.ON@
• @D.na@

• @U.ni.ON@
• @R.ni.ON@
• @D.ni@

• @R.TV.ON@
• @U.TV.ON@
• @U.TV.OFF@

Archphonemes (multi-character definitions)

• %^VH denoting floating high tone

Border

• %< prefix border
• %> suffix border

Flag diacritics

We have manually optimised the structure of our lexicon using following flag diacritics to restrict morhpological combinatorics - only allow compounds with verbs if the verb is further derived into a noun again:

For languages that allow compounding, the following flag diacritics are needed to control position-based compounding restrictions for nominals. Their use is handled automatically if combined with +CmpN/xxx tags. If not used, they will do no harm.

Use the following flag diacritics to control downcasing of derived proper nouns (e.g. Finnish Pariisi -> pariisilainen). See e.g. North Sámi for how to use these flags. There exists a ready-made regex that will do the actual down-casing given the proper use of these flags.

The word forms in Tsuut'ina start from noun and verb prefixes

Classification

1. Always unpossessed nouns: nàk'ús "cloud"
2. Always possessed nouns: sitsì "my head" (body parts, kinship terms)
3. Possessed or unpossessed: tłích'á "dog" vs. silích'à "my dog"

Three (phonological) cases for the possessive prefixes:

1. Consonant-initial stem: si- "1SG" tsì "head" -> sitsì "my head"
2. Preceding H-tone stem: si- "1SG" V́tsí "nose" -> sítsí "my nose"
3. Vowel-initial stem: si- "1SG" óó "mother" -> sóó "my mother"
   (cf. ʔinóó "mother" , ʔi- "UNSPEC.POSS" (n)óó;

gu- "SOMEONE" óó "mother" -> gwóó gu > gw / _ [oa] ) Cu[oa] > Cw[oa]?

Periphrastic / non-morphological constructions are used for always unpossessed nouns: sá(à) nàk'ús "my cloud", ná(à) ʔidínít'ùgù yiitł'áłí "your vehicle")

Lexicons

• LEXICON AlwaysUnpossessedNouns never Px

• LEXICON AlwaysPossessedNouns always Px, body part, kinship

• LEXICON UnpossessedNouns Px or not, here not. Cf. PossessedNouns

• LEXICON PossessedNouns Px or not, here Px. Cf. UnpossessedNouns

Intransitive Verbs

• LEXICON PERF_CLASS_1

• LEXICON IPFV_CLASS_1a

• LEXICON IPFV_CLASS_1b

• LEXICON IPFV_CLASS_2

• LEXICON PERF_STEMS_1 the list of most verbs in perf

• LEXICON IPFV_STEMS_1a same list in ipfv, but no prefix

• LEXICON IPFV_STEMS_1b same list in ipfv, but with pref

Transitive Verbs

• LEXICON T_IPFV_CLASS_1a type 1a

Endlex cleanup

LEXICON T_IPFV_CLASS_1a gives all D flags blocking unwanted forms

Tsuut'ina Noun inflection

Classification.

1. Always unpossessed nouns: nàk'ús "cloud"
2. Always possessed nouns: sitsì "my head" (body parts, kinship terms)
3. Possessed or unpossessed: tłích'á "dog" vs. silích'à "my dog"

(see explanation in the affixes file)

Lexicons

• LEXICON NounPrefixes Splitting in 3

• LEXICON AlwaysPossessedNounPrefixes Px

• LEXICON VariablyPossessedNouns Px or not

The lexicon names srs15, srs14, etc. refers to traditional template names.

• LEXICON VerbPrefixes from the Root lexicon, always empty

• LEXICON srs15

• LEXICON srs14 empty

• LEXICON srs13 empty

• LEXICON srs12 empty

• LEXICON srs11 optional Distr+

• LEXICON srs10 empty

• LEXICON srs9 empty

• LEXICON srs8765 contains the person-number complex
• I_IMPERFECTIVE CLASS 1a, no other prefix

• LEXICON Person12_IPFV_CLASS_1b contains the block of 1st and 2nd person

Alphabet and sets

Alphabet

• a b c d e f g h i j k l ł m n o p q r s t u v w x y z á é ó ú í ā ē ō ū ī à è ò ù ì ʔ
• A B C D E F G H I J K L Ł M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Á É Ó Ú Í Ā Ē Ō Ū Ī À È Ò Ù Ì ʔ

• %^VH: 0 %> %<

Sets

• Vow = a e i o u á é ó ú í ā ē ō ū ī à è ò ù ì A E I O U Á É Ó Ú Í Ā Ē Ō Ū Ī À È Ò Ù Ì ;
• Cns = b c d f g h j k l ł m n p q r s t v w x z ʔ B C D F G H J K L Ł M N P Q R S T V W X Z ʔ ;

Rules

• Dock floating high tone on the preceeding vowel
  si<^VHtsí to high-tone prefix sí

• si<^VHtsí
• sí<0tsí