Analytic and Synthetic Verb Forms in Irish - An Agreement-Based Implementation in LFG
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This paper discusses the phenomenon of analytic and synthetic verb forms in Modern Irish, which results in a widespread system of morphological blocking. I present data from Modern Irish, then briefly discuss two earlier theoretical approaches. I introduce an alternative, agreement-based solution, involving 1) a finite-state morphological analyzer for verb forms implemented using the FST toolset (Beesley and Karttunen, 2003); 2) a computational grammar of Modern Irish couched within LexicalFunctional Grammar (LFG) (Bresnan, 2001) and implemented using the XLE grammar development platform (Crouch et al., 2008).
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تاریخ انتشار 2010