a fst description of noun and verb morphology of azarbaijani...

A FST description of noun and verb morphology ofAzarbaijani Turkish

Razieh Ehsani,Berke Ozenc, Ercan Solak

September 5, 2017

Razieh Ehsani, Berke Ozenc, Ercan Solak A FST description of noun and verb morphology of Azarbaijani TurkishSeptember 5, 2017 1 / 35

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Azarbaijani TurkishNominal and Verb InflectionApproachNominal InflectionPossessorVerb ParadigmVoiceAbility, Polarity, ProbabilityTense-PersonPhonologyFuture Work


Azarbaijani Turkish


Azarbaijani Turkish

oxumayacaqsansaread not will you if


Agglutinative

qutudakilardakilardakilardaki.....lardakind@nfrom those in the boxes of those in the boxes (repeat n times)


Vowel Harmony


Approach

Slots<key : value>: surface formEx: <Case: Abl> : -NAn (Arch-morpheme)

<key> : surface form


Nominal and Verb Inflection

Nominal : Nouns, Adjective, PostpositionsVerb : Finite inflection


Nominal Inflection

Fully slot-basedOrder :Stem + Number + Possessor + Family + CaseFamily : not considered in inflection generally

xalamlaraunt-P1SG-PLUxalalarımaunt-PLU-P1SGxalamgilaunt-P1SG-FAM*xalagilimaunt-FAM-P1SG


Ambiguity in Possessor

their book kitablarıhis/her books kitabları


Possessor

Abstract morpheme First level outputsn1 sn2 sn3

<Poss:None> - - -<Poss:1s> -Im -(I)m -(I)m<Poss:2s> -In -(I)n -(I)n<Poss:3s> -I(n) -(s)I(n)<Poss:1p> -ImIz -(I)mIz<Poss:2p> -InIz -(I)nIz

-Iz -(I)z<poss:3p> -I(n) -lArI(n)

Table : Possessor person paradigms for Figure 15. Empty cells areundefined. Apart from epenthesis, the only difference between sn1 and sn2 is<Poss:3p>.


Nominal Inflection


Nominal Inflection Ex.

kitablarımızınanbook s our with

Nom Pl Poss1 Case


Slot-based nominal inflection in AT

Nom<NOM>

#Pl #Sg

Poss2Poss1

Fam Case

<Num

:Pl>

:-lAr <Num:Sg>:-

sn1

sn2 sn3


Poss2Poss1

Fam Case

<Fa

m:Off>

:-

<Fa

m:On>

:-lAr

<Fam:Off>:-

<Fam:On>:-gil

<Fam:On>:-gill@r sn4


Case slot values

The case symbols for sn4 are of the form <Case:v>: a where (v,a) pairis one of

(Nom,-)(Dat,-(y)A)(Loc, -dA)(Acc, -(n)I)(Abl, -NAn)(Gen, -(n)In)(Ins, -(y)InAn)


Verb paradigm

Order of sub-paradigmsStem + Voice + Ability + Polarity + Probability + TAM + Person


Voice

5 Voices : Active, Passive, Reflexive, Reciprocal, CauseOrder : (Recip|Refl) + Cause + Passive

Symbol Morpheme

sv1<Caus>:-Irt<Caus>:-Art<Caus>:-(I)t

sv2 <Caus>:-dIr

sv3<Pasv>:-(I)l<Pasv>:-(I)n

Table : Voice suffixes


Lexical Conditioning

Attachment to stem is mostly lexically conditionedManually marked, 5909 verb-stems


Voice paradigm


Voice

VerbStem

<VERB>

Rcpr Rflx

Caus1ACaus1B

Caus2ACaus2B

Caus3

Pasv

APP

<Rcp

r>:-(

I)s

<Rflx>:-(I)n

sv1

sv2

sv3


Voice Diagram

VerbStem

<VERB>

Rcpr Rflx

Caus1ACaus1B

Caus2ACaus2B

Caus3

Pasv

APP

<Rcp

r>:-(

I)s

<Rflx>:-(I)n

sv2sv2

sv1

sv2

sv3


Voice paradigm

Caus1ACaus1B

Caus2ACaus2B

Caus3

Pasv

APP

sv2

sv2

sv2

sv2

sv3

sv3

sv3

sv3

sv3


Ability, Polarity, Probability

Polarity slot: <Pol:Pos> , <Pol:Neg>Ability, Probability same surface form in positive polarity.cannot say : I may be able to come.*g@l@bil@bil@r@mcan say : I may not be able to come.g@l@bil@nm@r@m


Ability-Polarity-Probability



APP

AbilAbil-

Pol1

Pol2

Pol3

Prob

TAMP1

TAMP3

TAMP2

<Abil>:-(y)Abil<

Abil>:-(

y)An

<Abil

>:-(

y)Abil

en

<Pol:Neg>

:-m@

<Pol:N

eg>

:-m@

<Po

l:Pos>

:-

<Pol:Pos>

:-

<Pol:Pos>:-mA



Pol1

Pol2

Pol3

Prob

TAMP1

TAMP3

TAMP2

<P

rbl>:-(y)A

bil


Tense-aspect-mood and person paradigm

Order : Tense + Copula + (Person + Condition + Question)11 Tense values ( 9 distinct behavioral groups)Too complicated to put on a single slide


Tense-aspect-mood and person paradigm


Tense-Person

TAMP1

Tens1Tens2

Cpl1 Prsn

Cond Q

<Tns

:Nec

c>:-m

AlI <Tns:Past>:-dI


Tense-Person

Tens1Tens2 Cpl2

Cpl1 Prsn

<Cpl:Aor>:-dIr

<C

pl:Narr>

:-ymIs

p1p

2

p3

p4


Tense-Person

Prsn

Cond Q<Cpl:Cond>:-sA

<Quest>:-mI


Person morphemes

Person p1 p2 p3 p4

<Prsn:1s> -yAm -Am -m<Prsn:2s> -sAn -sAn -n<Prsn:3s> - - -<Prsn:1p> -yIQ ıQ -q<Prsn:2p> -sInIz -sInIz -nIz<Prsn:3p> -lAr -lAr -lAr

Table : Person morphemes in Figure 32.


Phonology

Epenthetics1 (y), (s), (n)2 Considered as part of morphemes3 Dropped depending on the contaxt

Harmony, Velarization and Approximation1 N − > n or m2 A − > a or @3 Q − > K (after front vowel)4 K − > k,y5 Q − > q or g


Future Work

Derivation (Productive ones)1 Noun to Verb2 Verb to Noun3 Verb to Adverb4 Noun to Adverb

Nominal PredicatesLexicon ReductionPublicly available as a web service


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