Lushootseed NLP Grammar

Finite state and Constraint Grammar based analysers, proofing tools and other resources

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Lushootseed morphological analyser !

INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF LUSHOOTSEED LANGUAGE.

Definitions for Multichar_Symbols

Letters

b̓
c̓
č
č̓
dᶻ
gʷ
ǰ

k̓
kʷ
k̓ʷ

l̕
ƛ̕

m̓
n̓

p̓

q̓
qʷ
q̓ʷ

t̕
w̓
y̓

x̌
xʷ
x̌ʷ

y̓

ə́ used in coding of dictionary ə̀ used in coding of dictionary

Analysis symbols

The morphological analyses of wordforms for the Lushootseed language are presented in this system in terms of the 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 adverbs also include

The Usage extents are marked using following tags:

Dialect tags:

The nominals are inflected in the following Case and Number

Possession is marked as follows:

The comparative forms are:

Numerals are classified under:

Verb moods are:

Verb/Predicate tenses and aspect are:

Verb personal forms are:

Direct Object conjugation

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:

Gender

Semantics are classified with

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

Reduplication in Lushootseed is associated with a three-letter reduplication segment.

reduplication type 1 envolves the first two letters of the three-letter reduplication segment

reduplication type 3 involves the last two letters of the three-letter reduplication segment

reduplication type 6 involves the all three letters of the three-letter reduplication segment with a double vowel

Tags distinguishing different versions of the same lemma (before POS)

Note: These high +v… number are in use for one word only:

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

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

place holders

And following triggers to control variation

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:

@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.

@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.

@U.Cap.Obl@ Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.
@U.Cap.Opt@ Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.

SPELLRELAX

NOUNS

VERBS

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