Swahili Inflectional Morphology for the Grammatical Framework

Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism based on type theory and implemented in Haskell, that utilizes the interlingua approach to multilingual translation. Multilingualism is achieved by defining resource grammar libraries for each individual language within the framework. Here, we present the definition of the inflectional morphology grammars for Swahili, as part of the Swahili resource grammar library within the Grammatical Framework. In this framework, morphological constructs are implemented using the functional morphology approach which requires definition of linguistic data types and morphological functions.