The Kalo Finnish Romany root.lexc file

This file defines all multicharacter symbols, and contains the initial lexicon Root.

Analysis symbols

The morphological analyses of wordforms for the Romany language are presented in this system in terms of the following symbols. Note that some of the tags still are copied from other language versions

Parts-of-speech tags:

• +N +A +Adv +V open POS
• +Pron +CS +CC +Adp +Po +Pr +Interj +Pcle +Num +Det closed POS
• +ABBR abbreviations
• +ACR acronyms
• +Prop +Pers +Dem +Interr +Refl +Recipr +Rel +Indef POS subtags

The number, gender and case tags:

• +Msc +Fem
• +Sg singular
• +Pl plural
• +Sg1 +Sg2 +Sg3 +Pl1 +Pl2 +Pl3 Verb personal tags
• +Nom Nominative
• +Obl Obliikvi
• +Dat Dative
• +Abl Ablative
• +Gen Genitive
• +Gen/Long name?
• +Ins Instrumentaali

• +Acc Accusative

• +Kiiro name?
• +Kiire name?
• +Kiiri name?

Other sub-tags

• +Pos positive
• +Comp +Superl Comparative, superlative
• +Attr attribute
• +Card +Ord Cardinal and ordinal numerals
• +Ind +Prs +Prt +Pot +Cond +Imprt Verb tense andmood
• +Inf +Ger +ConNeg +ConNegII +Neg +ImprtII +PrsPrc +PrfPrc +Sup +VGen +VAbess From Sámi, probably delete several of these.

• +TV +IV transitivity tags

• +Poss possessive

Other tags

• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©
• +CLB clause boundary for period and comma
• +PUNCT other punctuation symbol
• +LEFT +RIGHT paired symbols, parentheses
• +Multi multiword tag
• +Guess guess tag (not in use)

Question and Focus particles (probably not needed)

• +Qst +Foc

Semantic tags

These are not yet in use

• +Sem/Mal +Sem/Fem +Sem/Sur
• +Sem/Plc
• +Sem/Org
• +Sem/Obj
• +Sem/Ani
• +Sem/Hum
• +Sem/Plant
• +Sem/Group
• +Sem/Time
• +Sem/Txt
• +Sem/Route
• +Sem/Measr
• +Sem/Wthr
• +Sem/Build
• +Sem/Edu
• +Sem/Veh
• +Sem/Clth

Derivation

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

• +V→N +V→V +V→A
• +Der/xxx

Usage tags

The Usage extents are marked using the following tags:

• +Err/Orth tagging non-standard forms
• +Use/-Spell tagging other forms not to be accepted by the speller

Morphophonology

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

• ^V for long vowel
• ^CDEL for use in Ins.

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:

The flag diacritics are not yet in use

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.

The Root lexicon

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

LEXICON K (for clitics, probably not needed)

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