Cornish morphology

First, we declare multicharacter symbols

POS

• +N +V +A
• +Adv +CC +CS +Interj +Pron +Num +Pr
• +Smut +Mmut +Pmut +Amut for mutation
• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©

Verbal MSP

+Prs +Fut +Prt +Prf +Ipf +Plf
+Ind +Imp +Sbj
+Inf +Sit ! what is +Sit?
+Pos +Neg +ConNeg
+1Sg +2Sg +3Sg +1Pl +2Pl +3Pl
+Impers
+Ptc
+VN

Nominal MSP

+Sg +Pl +P
+Nom +Acc +Gen
+Ord

Pronominal MSP

+Suff +Emph +Indef
+Msc +Fem

Diacritical marks, to trigger morphophonological rules. The “%” symbol literalises the next symbol

%^S %^A %^P %^M %^V %^E
%> %^D
%^UML %^CD %^TRUNC %^STDEL

Archiphonemes

e3 e to o in plural a4 o4 Umlaut phonemes, changing to e

Symbols that need to be escaped on the lower side (towards twolc):

• »7: Literal »
• «7: Literal «

   %[%>%]  - Literal >
   %[%<%]  - Literal <
  

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:

Flag	Explanation
@P.NeedNoun.ON@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised
@D.NeedNoun.ON@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised
@C.NeedNoun@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised

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.

Flag	Explanation
@P.CmpFrst.FALSE@	Require that words tagged as such only appear first
@D.CmpPref.TRUE@	Block such words from entering ENDLEX
@P.CmpPref.FALSE@	Block these words from making further compounds
@D.CmpLast.TRUE@	Block such words from entering R
@D.CmpNone.TRUE@	Combines with the next tag to prohibit compounding
@U.CmpNone.FALSE@	Combines with the prev tag to prohibit compounding
@P.CmpOnly.TRUE@	Sets a flag to indicate that the word has passed R
@D.CmpOnly.FALSE@	Disallow words coming directly from root.

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.

Flag	Explanation
@U.Cap.Obl@	Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.
@U.Cap.Opt@	Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.
@P.Pmatch.Backtrack@	For preprocessing
@R.ErrOrth.ON@	resetting ErrOrth flag
@C.ErrOrth@	clearing ErrOrth Flag.

• +Use/TTS – only retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser
• +Use/-TTS – never retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser

Flag diacritic	Explanation
@U.number.one@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.two@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.three@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.four@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.five@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.six@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.seven@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.eight@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.nine@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.zero@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;

Key lexicon

• LEXICON Root
  • Adverb ;
  • Noun ;
  • Propernoun ;
  • Preposition ;
  • Conjunction ;
  • Subjunction ;
  • Verb ;
  • Adjective ;
  • Interjection ;
  • Numeral ;
  • Pronoun ;
  • Punctuation ;
  • Symbols ;

Adhoc lexica, to be fixed

• LEXICON ENDLEX
• LEXICON RNum
• LEXICON ARABICCOMPOUNDS

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/root.lexc