Documenting the South Saami lexicon file
Documenting the South Saami lexicon file
The nouns
The noun stems are stored in gt/sma/noun-sma-lex.txt, whereas the morphology is found in gt/sma/sma-lex.txt. It was made by converting the original Moshagen / Trosterud sma lexicon to the Xerox format. The lexical rules are taken from Karttunen's alternative formulation of our file. His original is found in the archive of original files (Contact Trond for reference, if needed).
The nouns are divided into three stem classes, the N_IE nouns (gåetie, etc.), the N_OE nouns (bearkoe, etc) and the N_OTHER nouns (all other ones, bi- and trisyllabic alike).
The case forms fall in three different groups: Forms unique to each of the three stem classes (listed under each sublexicon), forms with -j- in the N_OE class and -i- in the other ones (with separate i- and j- sublexica and a common suffix lexicon), and forms common to all stem classes (covered in a common continuation lexicon).
Here is a list of the lexica (to be documented)
N_ODD N_ODD_NODISIMP ÅABPETJH !default N_ODD plural lexicon N_ODD_C !these words have consonant-ending in nominative AAJEGE !Sg+Nom=Aajege/Aajeh Sg+Cmp=Aajeh- AAREGE !Sg+Nom=Aarege/Aareh Sg+Cmp=Aarege-/Aareh- BAARTEGE !Sg+Nom=baartege/baarth Sg+Cmp=baartege-/baarth- GAAJSEGE !Sg+Nom=gaajsege/gaajsh Sg+Cmp=gaajsh- LAADTEGE !Sg+Nom=laadtege Sg+Cmp=laadth- SAADTEGE !Sg+Nom=saadtege Sg+Cmp=saadtege-/saadth- LEEJJEGE !Sg+Nom=leejjege Sg+Cmp=leejjeh- DEAKEHKE !Sg+Nom=deakehke/deakah Sg+Cmp=deakehke-/deakah- ÅERUVE BÅERUVE VUANOVE BÅERUJE IJE_ODD DAKTERE N_IE VUELIE TJIDTJIE TJÅENIEH !ie plural lexicon N_OE_UML N_OE LAAHKOE GAAROEH !-oe plural MAANA AAHKA NIEJTE MAAKE JOVKEMES
The adjectives
The continuation lexica are built on the following convention:
attrsuffix_PREDSUFFIX_STEMTYPECOMPTYPE
A letter C in the beginning of the suffix marks consonant. There may be more than one suffix both for attr and PRED, thereby the difference small/capital letters. Example:
faelskies+CmpN/SgN+CmpN/SgG+CmpN/PlG:faelsk ies_IES_IE_EVEN
This is an even-syllabic adjective, with -ies attributive and -ies or -ie in predicative. Since nothing is said about comparative forms, it has normal comparative and superlative inflection.
The verbs
The auxiliary lea and the negative verbs have been added. These verbs are irregular, and have thus been added without the use of any morphophonological processes.
To be written: Documentation for verb lexica.
The adpositions and prepositions
The adpositions in Bergsland's grammar have been listed, in two groups, pure postpositions and combined pre/postpositions (named "adpositions"). Other adpositions ahve been added.