Within recent years there has been considerable interest in multiple affixation, particularly in explaining why strings of prefixes and suffixes occur in the orders in which they do. The explanations given have been of either a semantic or syntactic nature, as seen in two influential publications that appeared in the same year. Noting cross-linguistic tendencies to fix certain affix orders, Byb...

This paper attempts to participate in the ongoing discussion in search of a suitable model for the computational treatment of Greek morphology. Focusing on the unsupervised morphology learning technique, and particularly on the model of Linguistica by Goldsmith (2001), we attempt a computational treatment of specific word formation phenomena in Modern Greek (MG), such as suffixation and compoun...

This paper introduces a new lexicographic resource, MuLeXFoR, which aims to present word-formation processes in a multilingual database designed for both language specialists (e.g. linguists, terminologists, lexicographers, NLP specialists) as well as second-language (L2) learners and trainee translators. Morphological items (e.g. affixes, compound parts, combining forms) and processes (prefixa...

This work is about derivational suffixes, endings and prefixes of the Spanish language, which are useful for the establishment of about 70 000 suffixal and 11 000 prefixal extended morpholexical relationships deduced from a corpus of 134 109 canonical forms. A computational tool is developed capable of solving and answering to any morphological aspect of a Spanish word. The tool encompasses eve...

Text normalization transforms words into a base form so that terms from common equivalent classes match. Traditionally, information retrieval systems employ stemming techniques to remove derivational affixes. Depluralization, the transformation of plurals into singular forms, is also used as a low-level text normalization technique to preserve more precise lexical semantics of text. Experiment ...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between the forms and functions of the Tense-Aspect-Modality categories. Bybee’s hypothesis (1985) was tested against Yami data to discover how the categories of tense, aspect, and mood interact to support the iconicity hypothesis. The morphemic order and the degree of fusion are not arbitrary, in that the categories that most affect the meanings...