Nonconcatenative morphology: An HPSG analysis

Bhuyan, M.S.I.; Ahmed, Reaz

doi:10.1109/icece.2008.4769235

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“…HPSG analyses for nonconcatenative morphology in general and for Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew and others) languages in particular are relatively new (Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008b;Mutawa et al, 2008;Kihm, 2006;Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008c;Riehemann, 2000;Bird and Klein, 1994;Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008a;Islam et al, 2009). However, the intricate nature of Arabic morphology motivated several research projects addressing the issues (Beesley, 2001;Buckwalter, 2004;Smrž, 2007).…”

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Arabic nominals in HPSG: A verbal noun perspective

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Semitic languages exhibit rich nonconcatenative morphological operations, which can generate a myriad of derived lexemes. Especially, the feature rich, root-driven morphology in the Arabic language demonstrates the construction of several verb-derived nominals (verbal nouns) such as gerunds, active participles, passive participles, locative participles, etc. Although HPSG is a successful syntactic theory, it lacks the representation of complex nonconcatenative morphology. In this paper, we propose a novel HPSG representation for Arabic nominals and various verb-derived nouns. We also present the lexical type hierarchy and derivational rules for generating these verb-derived nominals using the HPSG framework.

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