Traveller Romani morphological analyser

INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF Traveller Romani

Definitions for Multichar_Symbols

Analysis symbols

The morphological analyses of wordforms for Traveller Romani 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:

• +N +A +Adv +V
• +IM infinitive marker
• +Pron +CS +CC +Adp +Po +Pr +Interj +Pcle +Num

Gender:

• +Msc +Fem +Neu

The parts of speech are further split up into:

• +Prop +Pers +Dem +Interr +Refl +Recipr +Rel +Indef

The nominals are inflected in the following (Case and) Number

• +Sg +Pl
• +Nom needed?
• +Gen needed?
• +Acc needed ?
• +Def

The comparative forms are:

• +Pos
• +Comp
• +Superl

Numerals are classified under:

• +Attr +Card
• +Ord Verb moods are:
• +Ind +Prs +Prt +Imprt hmm, no Ind marked…
• +Imp (fix Imp / Imprt)

Other verb forms are

• +Inf +Neg
• +PrsPtc TODO fix Ptc vs. Prt
• +PrfPtc
• +PrfPrt

• +PrsPrt

• +ABBR +ACR
• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, © Special symbols are classified with:
• +CLB +PUNCT +LEFT +RIGHT +MIDDLE
• +CLBfinal

The verbs are syntactically split according to transitivity: (well, not yet)

• +TV +IV Special multiword units are analysed with:
• +Multi
• +MWE

Numeral subgroups

• +Arab
• +Rom
• +Coll

Non-dictionary words can be recognised with:

• +Guess

Question and Focus particles:

• +Qst +Foc

The Usage extents are marked using following tags:

• +Err/Orth

• +Use/-Spell

• +Err/Hyph
• +Err/Lex
• +Err/MissingSpace

• +Err/SpaceCmp

• +Use/-PLX
• +Use/-PMatch
• +Use/Circ
• +Use/GC
• +Use/NG
• +Use/PMatch
• +Use/SpellNoSugg
• +Use/TTS – only retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser
• +Use/-TTS – never retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser

Paradigm choice

• +v1
• +v2

Semantics are classified with (so far the 4 first only)

• +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

• +Sem/Amount
• +Sem/Build-room
• +Sem/Cat
• +Sem/Curr
• +Sem/Date
• +Sem/Domain
• +Sem/Domain_Hum
• +Sem/Dummytag
• +Sem/Edu_Hum
• +Sem/Event
• +Sem/Food-med
• +Sem/Group_Hum
• +Sem/ID
• +Sem/Lang
• +Sem/Mat
• +Sem/Money
• +Sem/Obj-el
• +Sem/Obj-ling
• +Sem/Org_Prod-audio
• +Sem/Org_Prod-vis
• +Sem/Part
• +Sem/Prod-vis
• +Sem/Rule
• +Sem/Sign
• +Sem/State
• +Sem/State-sick
• +Sem/Substnc
• +Sem/Time-clock
• +Sem/Tool-it
• +Sem/Year

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

• +V→N +V→V +V→A
• +Der/Adv
• +Der/xxx

Morphophonology To represent phonologic variations in word forms we use the following symbols in the lexicon files: (still no such)

• a2 for gaje - gajer

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.

| 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 ;

Compound tags

• +CmpNP/First
• +CmpNP/None

Language tags

• +OLang/ENG
• +OLang/FIN
• +OLang/NNO
• +OLang/NOB
• +OLang/RUS
• +OLang/SMA
• +OLang/SME
• +OLang/SWE
• +OLang/UND

LEXICON Root is where it all begins. The word forms in Romany language start from the lexeme roots of basic word classes, or optionally from prefixes. The basic lexica are: Adjectives ; Adverbs ; Conjunctions ; Interjections ; Nouns ; Numerals ; Prefixes ; Prepositions ; Pronouns ; Propernouns ; Punctuation ; Subjunctions ; Symbols ; Verbs ;

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