South Sámi morphological analyser

Prefixing and compounding

Lexicon Prefixes

It contains only one entry:

• Noerhte- ProperNoun ;

Lexicon R

This lexicon is the main entry for regular compounding. All entries NOT requiring a hyphen should point to it.

The whole content of it is a list of flag diacritics to control compounding.

After the flags, we continue to the Rreal ; lexicon, for the real compounding action.

It should be noted that some of the flags above require a corresponding flag in the lexicon ENDLEX to work properly.

Lexicon Rreal

This is where the actual compounding happens.

Lexicon RNum

For compounds of the type Num+Noun. We can’t allow Num+Num, thus we use a separate compounding lexicon, since the regular RHyph lexicon below contains a continuation pointing back to the numerals.

Lexicon RHyph

This lexicon is used for compounds requiring a hyphen before the next part. As for the regular compounds, we first add a number of flag diacritics to restrict certain combinations, before we continue to the real compounding lexicon.

Lexicon RHyphReal

This is where the actual hyphen compounding happens. The hyphen is added here.

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