A grammar of Pite Saami

Wilbur, Joshua Karl

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“…Some other highly inflecting languages (particularly of the fusional type) show cross-cutting morphological phenomena that should be considered morphomic because they are synchronically not phonological and apply to an unnatural set of morphosyntactic contexts. This is the case, for example, of consonant gradation and vowel apophony in Sami, see Table 12 As explained by Wilbur (2015), consonant gradation (strong grade indicated in light grey above) is no longer phonologically predictable in Pite Sami (nor in the other Sami varieties for that matter). Also, although Wilbur (2015) chooses the term "vowel harmony" to refer to vowel alternations like the one shaded in dark gray here, these are no longer phonologically determined assimilations in Pite Sami.…”

Section: Morphomes Which Cross-cut Each Othermentioning

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Morphome interactions

Herce

2018

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How morphological elements interact with one another is a major concern for both morphological theory and typological research. Morphemes, for example, are usually said to block each other when they are in subset-superset relations to one another. Little is known, by contrast, of how morphomes (i.e. forms with unnatural morphosyntactic distributions) interact with one another. This paper provides an initial typology of morphome interactions, based on whether their forms overlap in the paradigm or not, or whether the distribution of one constitutes a subset of the other or not. In addition, special attention will be paid to the outcome or the resolution of morphome orthogonalities. Focusing on the interaction between the L-and N-morphomes of Romance, the analogical changes related to their orthogonality are surveyed and a constraint isproposed that limits the possibilities of morphome interaction.

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2018

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“…²⁰Note however that the description of vowel harmony on pages 79-81 in Wilbur (2014) is correct in its essence, but does not accurately reflect the status of this phenomenon as being truly phonological. Compiler (TWOLC) is used .…”

Section: Morphophonological Processes In Twolcmentioning

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computatinal Linguistics of Uralic Languages

Pirinen¹,

Rießler²,

Rueter³

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PrefaceThe 4th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Uralic Languages (IWCLUL) continues the annual meetings ACL SIGUR (Association of computational linguistics' special interest group for Uralic languages) after St. Petersburg (2017), Szeged (2016), and Tromsø (2015). It took place in Helsinki from 8th to 9th January, 2018 and was organized in collaboration with the NLP Research Group at the University of Helsinki.should repeat the complete info in order to let this page of the proceedings explain itself (people might not look through the other pages)This year we received a total of 20 submissions of which we accepted 15 (one of which was withdrawn by the authors) giving total of 14 high-quality papers in the final proceedings and an acceptance rate of 75 %. The accepted papers represent a variety of languages and growing resources in the Uralic landscape: Finnish, Komi-Zyrian, Udmurt, Erzya, Northern Sámi, Pite Sámi, Nganasan and Estonian; topics covered treebanks, parsing, code-switching, language generation, automatic speech recognition, morphology, and typological treatment across all Uralic languages, among others.During this year's annual meeting we also had the first election of the ACL SIGUR board after the establishment of the new SIG in Szeged in 2016. The current board was re-elected by the ACL SIGUR membership for two further years.We thank the programming committee, local organisers and participants for making annual meetings of ACL SIG for Uralic languages possible. AbstractThis paper describes the test of a dependency parsing method which is based on bidirectional LSTM feature representations and multilingual word embedding, and evaluates the results on mono-and multilingual data. The results are similar in all cases, with a slightly better results achieved using multilingual data. The languages under investigation are Komi-Zyrian and Russian. Examination of the results by relation type shows that some language specific constructions are correctly recognized even when they appear in naturally occurring code-switching data. TiivistelmäTutkimus arvioi dependenssianalyysin menetelmää, joka perustuu kaksisuuntaiseen LSTM-piirrerepresentaatioon ja monikieliseen 'word embedding' -malliin, sekä arvioi tuloksia yksi-ja monikielisissä aineistoissa. Tulokset ovat samantapaisia, mutta hieman korkeampia moni-kuin yksikielisissä aineistoissa. Tutkitut kielet ovat komisyrjääni ja venäjä. Tulosten yksityiskohtaisempi analyysi riippuvuuksien mukaan osoittaa, että tietyt kielikohtaiset suhteet on tunnistettu oikein jopa niiden esiintyessä luonnollisissa koodinvaihtoa sisältävissä lauseissa. IntroductionSpontaneous speech data of small, endangered languages most commonly contain code-switching, ad-hoc borrowings and other kinds of language contact phenomena originating from the non-target contact language(s). Consequently, spoken corpora originating from such data contain numerous utterances in which linguistic elements from at least two languages co-occur. The most usual occurrences are c...

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“…Table 6 provides a few examples of differing adjective paradigms in order to provide an impression for the variation in patterning. Wilbur (2014) sets forth nine adjec¹²Whether comparative and superlative forms are types of morphological derivation or inflection, and whether case-marked adjective forms which occur in elliptical constructions should be included in the core adjectival paradigm, are theoretical discussions well beyond the scope of the current paper. tive inflectional classes,¹³ but the current analyses is well beyond that, and currently has 28 inflectional classes, with new classes added on a fairly regular basis as new adjectives are added to the database.¹⁴ To provide still another impression of how inconsistent adjectives are, the following figures are provided anecdotally.…”

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“…It remains to be seen to what extent any official Pite Saami orthography will adhere to the orthography presented in Wilbur (2016b) (and the accompanying website at saami.unifreiburg.de/psdp/stavningsregler/). ⁸An initial approach like this is presented for nouns, verbs and adjectives in the relevant chapters in Wilbur (2014), but the present analysis goes beyond this, and is informed by continuing research that has taken place since that publication.…”

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Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives

Wilbur¹

2018

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computatinal Linguistics of Uralic Languages

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The main goal of this paper is to describe to what extent the three main open word classes in Pite Saami (nouns, verbs and adjectives) can be automatically assigned to inflectional classes in language technology, specifically for a Finite State Transducer. For each of these word classes, the relevant structural features necessary for determining inflectional class membership are described. In this, a clear difference between the behavior of nouns and verbs, on the one hand, and that of adjectives, on the other hand, is ascertained. While morphophonology, as seen in the paradigmatic behavior of all three word classes, is complex and features a number of types of stem alternations, nouns and verbs are predictable, while adjectives are not. With this in mind, a basic algorithm for extracting inflectional class assignment for nouns and verbs is presented for use in a LEXC framework. In contrast to this, adjectives must be assigned to inflectional classes manually. The main TWOLC rules used to trigger morphophonological alternations are also outlined. The Pite Saami lexicographic database that forms the backbone for the LEXC stem files is managed using FileMaker Pro database software, and the workflow used to extract and update LEXC files from that database is described, focussing on the differences between nouns and verbs, and adjectives. In this, light is shed on how, on the one hand, nominal and verbal inflectional patters are highly complex yet reliably systematic, while adjective morphophonology is complex and unpredictable. KokkuvõteSelle artikli peamine eesmärk on kirjeldada, mil määral saab kolme põhilist avatud sõnaklassi (substantiive, verbe ja adjektiive) pite saami keeles automaatselt flekteerida kasutades keeletehnoloogia FST-d. Artiklis kirjeldatakse iga sõ-naliigi muuttüübi määramiseks vajalikke strukturaalseid omadusi ning näidatak-se, et adjektiivid on substantiividest ja verbidest selgelt erinevad. Samal ajal kui kõigi kolme sõnaklassi paradigmaatilist käitumist iseloomustab kompleksne paljusid tüvevahelduse tüüpe hõlmav morfofonoloogia, saab substantiivide ja verbide muutumist ennustada, kuid adjektiivide oma mitte. Seega kirjeldatakse artiklis Tuuakse välja ka peamised TWOLC reeglid, mida kasutatakse morfofonoloogilise vahelduse tekitamiseks. LEXC tüvefailide põhialuseks on pite saami keele leksikograafiline andmebaas, mida hallatakse FileMaker tarkvaraga; artiklis kirjeldatakse sellest andmebaasist LEXC failide väljavõtmise ja nende uuendamise töö-voogu, keskendudes erinevustele nimisõnade ja verbide, ning adjektiivide vahel. Näidatakse, et substantiivide ja verbide fleksioonimustrid on küll komplekssed, kuid väga süstemaatilised, samas kui adjektiivide morfofonoloogia on keeruline ning raskesti ennustatav.

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A grammar of Pite Saami

Cited by 21 publications

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computatinal Linguistics of Uralic Languages

Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives

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