INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF Paumarí LANGUAGE.
Definitions for Multichar_Symbols
Analysis symbols
The morphological analyses of wordforms for the Paumarí 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:
Nouns come in two types analogous to gender, i.e., marking agreement on verbs and adjectives. CHECKME 2025-05-30 Rian
The parts of speech are further split up into:
The Usage extents are marked using following tags:
- +Use/TTS – only retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser
- +Use/-TTS – never retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser
The nominals are inflected in the following Case and Number
Possessive tags
- +PxSg1 Singular First Person
- +PxSg2 Singular Second Person
- +PxSg3F Singular Third Person Feminine
- +PxSg3M Singular Third Person Male
- +PxPl1 Plural First Person
- +PxPl2 Plural Second Person
- +PxPl3F Plural Third Person Feminine
- +PxPl3M Plural Third Person Male
The comparative forms are: Numerals are classified under:
Verb moods are:
- +Ind Indicative / Indicativo
- +Hor Hortative / Hortativo
Pronoun personal forms are:
Verb person-number-gender
- +ScSg1 subject conjugation first person singular
- +ScSg2 subject conjugation second person singular
- +ScSg3F subject conjugation third person singular Feminine
- +ScSg3M subject conjugation third person singular Male
- +ScPl1 subject conjugation first person plural
- +ScPl2 subject conjugation second person plural
- +ScPl3 subject conjugation third person plural
- +ScPl3F subject conjugation third person plural Feminine
-
+ScPl3M subject conjugation third person plural Male
- +OcSg1 object conjugation first person singular
- +OcSg2 object conjugation second person singular
- +OcSg3F object conjugation third person singular Feminine
- +OcSg3M object conjugation third person singular Male
- +OcPl1 object conjugation first person plural
- +OcPl2 object conjugation second person plural
- +OcPl3F object conjugation third person plural Feminine
- +OcPl3M object conjugation third person plural Male
Other verb forms are
- +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, © Special symbols are classified with:
The nouns are given with gender
- +Fem feminine nouns usually require a correlating demonstrative ʼida
- +Msc masculine nouns usually require a correlating demonstrative ada
The verbs are syntactically split according to transitivity:
- +BV bitransitive / bitransitivo
- +IV
- +TV
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
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.
Noun type, ka vs zero
Possessor indices
finite verb negation
Subject person indices
Intransitive Subject person indices
The word forms in Paumarí language start from the lexeme roots of basic word classes, or optionally from prefixes:
This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/root.lexc