Abstract
This paper presents the phonological layer of a Kwak’wala finite-state morphological transducer, using the phonological hypotheses of Lincoln and Rath (1986) and the lenient composition operation of Karttunen (1998) to mediate the complicated relationship between underlying and surface forms. The resulting system decomposes the wide variety of surface forms in such a way that the morphological layer can be specified using unique and largely concatenative morphemes.- Anthology ID:
- W18-4803
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Venue:
- PYLO
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 21–30
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-4803
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Patrick Littell. 2018. Finite-state morphology for Kwak’wala: A phonological approach. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages, pages 21–30, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Finite-state morphology for Kwak’wala: A phonological approach (Littell, PYLO 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/W18-4803.pdf