This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and its computational processing. It combines linguistic analysis with application of finite-state technology to processing of the language. The book opens with the author’s synoptic overview of the main lines of research, covers the properties of the word and its components, then moves up to the description of Georgian morphosyntax and the morphological analyzer and generator of Georgian.The book comprises three chapters and accompanying appendices. The aim of the first chapter is to describe the morphosyntactic structure of Georgian, focusing on differences between Old and Modern Georgian. The second chapter focuses on the application of finite-state technology to the processing of Georgian and on the compilation of a tokenizer, a morphological analyzer and a generator for Georgian. The third chapter discusses the testing and evaluation of the analyzer’s output and the compilation of the Georgian Language Corpus (GLC), which is now accessible online and freely available to the research community.Since the development of the analyzer, the field of computational linguistics has advanced in several ways, but the majority of new approaches to language processing has not been tested on Georgian. So, the organization of the book makes it easier to handle new developments from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint.The book includes a detailed index and references as well as the full list of morphosyntactic tags. It will be of interest and practical use to a wide range of linguists and advanced students interested in Georgian morphosyntax generally as well as to researchers working in the field of computational linguistics and focusing on how languages with complicated morphosyntax can be handled through finite-state approaches.
Author(s): Irina Lobzhanidze
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: The Georgian Language
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Alphabet and Phonology
2.2.1 The Alphabet and Scripts
2.2.2 Phonology
2.2.2.1 Vowels
2.2.2.2 Consonants
2.2.2.3 Syllable Structure and Consonant Clusters
2.2.3 Word Structure
2.3 Morphosyntax
2.3.1 Noun Inflection
2.3.1.1 Case
2.3.1.2 Number
2.3.1.3 Postpositions and the Auxiliary Verb
2.3.1.4 The Extension Vowel
2.3.1.5 Particles
2.3.1.6 Summary
2.3.2 Adjectival Inflection
2.3.2.1 Degree
2.3.2.2 Summary
2.3.3 Numeral Inflection
2.3.3.1 Types of Numerals
2.3.3.2 Summary
2.3.4 Pronouns
2.3.4.1 Person
2.3.4.2 Pronoun Types
2.3.4.3 Summary
2.3.5 Clitics
2.3.5.1 Postpositions and Case Marking
2.3.5.2 Auxiliary Verbs
2.3.5.3 Particles
2.3.5.4 Quotation Particles
2.3.6 Verbal Inflection
2.3.6.1 Types of Verb
2.3.6.2 Preverbs
2.3.6.3 Person and Number
2.3.6.4 Valency and Transitivity
2.3.6.5 Inversion and Object Correlation Markers
2.3.6.6 Diathesis and Voice
2.3.6.7 Tense Aspect Mood (TAM) Series
2.3.6.8 Participle and Verbal Noun
2.3.7 Adverbs
2.3.8 Conjunctions
2.3.9 Particles
2.3.10 Interjections
2.4 Summary
References
Chapter 3: Computational Modeling
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Tokenization
3.3 The Morphological Analyzer
3.3.1 The Nominal Lexicon and Replacement Rules
3.3.2 The Adjectival Lexicon and Replacement Rules
3.3.3 The Numeral Lexicon and Replacement Rules
3.3.4 The Pronominal Lexicon and Replacement Rules
3.3.5 The Verbal Lexicon and Replacement Rules
3.3.6 The Participial and Verbal Noun Lexicons
3.3.7 Closed Word-Classes: Adverbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Interjections and Postpositions
3.3.8 Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Punctuation Marks
3.4 Summary
References
Chapter 4: Testing and Evaluation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Rule Integrity
4.3 Consistency and Ordering of Tags
4.4 Language Coverage Test: Wordlists and Corpus Data
4.4.1 Corpus Compilation
4.4.2 Corpus Processing and Markup
4.4.2.1 Header
4.4.2.2 Text
4.4.2.3 Summary
4.4.3 Language Coverage
4.5 Summary
References
Appendix A: Morphosyntactic Tags
Appendix B: Triggers
Appendix C: Structural Markup
Glosses3
Author Index
Subject Index
