Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology
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This paper demonstrates how a (multi-tape) two-level formalism can be used to write two-level grammars for Arabic non-linear morphology using a high level, but computationally tractable, notation. Three illustrative grammars are provided based on CV-, moraic- and affixational analyses. These are complemented by a proposal for handling the hitherto computationally untreated problem of the broken plural. It will be shown that the best grammars for describing Arabic non-linear morphology are moraic in the case of templatic stems, and affixational in the case of a-templatic stems. The paper will demonstrate how the broken plural can be derived under two-level theory via the `implicit' derivation of the singular.
to appear in Narayanan A., Ditters E. (eds). The Linguistic Computation of Arabic. uuencoded, compressed .ps file, 27 pages
to appear in Narayanan A., Ditters E. (eds). The Linguistic Computation of Arabic. uuencoded, compressed .ps file, 27 pages