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Authors

Divvun and Giellatekno teams, community members

Software version

2012

Documentation license

GNU GFDL

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SVN Date

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

This is free and open source South Sámi morphology.

Morphology

INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF UNDEFINED LANGUAGE.

Analysis symbols

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

The parts-of-speech are:

The parts of speech are further split up into: Types of nouns include Types of pronouns include

Types of adverbs include

The Usage extents are marked using following tags:

Overgeneration of case formatives, such as, exessive with personal pronouns Dialects

The nominals are inflected in the following Case and Number

The possession is marked as such: The comparative forms are: Numerals and other quantifiers are classified under:

Verb moods are:

Verb personal forms are: Other verb forms are

Special symbols are classified with: The verbs are syntactically split according to transitivity: Special multiword units are analysed with: Non-dictionary words can be recognised with:

Question and Focus particles:

Semantics are classified with

Derivations are classified under the morphophonetic form of the suffix, the source and target part-of-speech.

Morphophonology

To represent phonologic variations in word forms we use the following symbols in the lexicon files:

And following triggers to control variation

We have manually optimised the structure of our lexicon using following flag diacritics to restrict morhpological combinatorics:

The word forms in UNDEFINED language start from the lexeme roots of basic word classes, or optionally from prefixes:

POS with minimal morphological variation

Nouns in the Estonian language inflect for case and number.

(subsequent examples are *Noun - hobune # Noun 'horse'*)

• hobune: hobune+N+Sg+Nom
• hobuse: hobune+N+Sg+Gen
• hobust: hobune+N+Sg+Par
• hobusesse: hobune+N+Sg+Ill