Keywords - L323.6

Morphology

Writing a Grammar (Some Latin verbs)

 Creating an inflected form

• The input from Lexical Semantics will for verbs: a verb stem, and grammatical features of the verb.
• For example, the 2nd person singular of the stem REG:
  • REG, [-Past], [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg]
  • The last three features are acquired through syntax, but we won't be concerned about that here.
• Latin follows the Default Rule suggested in class that grammatical endings are marked [+Suffix].
  • REG, [[-Past], [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg], [+Suffix]
• Splitting occurs:
  • REG + [[-Past], [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg], [+Suffix]
• In Latin, the present tense is marked as [+Suffix 1] except in the first person singular:; the agreement forms are marked as [+Suffix 2]:
  • REG + [[-Past], [+Suffix 1] + [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg], [+Suffix]
• In tree structure form this should look like:

• The lexical entry for REG contains information that it is spelled out as "reg"
  • reg + [[-Past],p+Suffix 1] + [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg], [+Suffix 2]
• The grammatical entry for [-Past] is spelled out as "i", and [+Pers], [-1st], [+Sg] is pspelled out as "s":
  • reg + i + s.
• In Latin orthography, it is spelled out as a single word: regis.

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