Computational Nonlinear Morphology: With Emphasis on Semitic Languages [Kõva köide]

Based on linguistically motivated models, this book provides a computational analysis of the complex morphological phenomena found in Semitic languages. It outlines a new generalized regular rewrite rule system that uses multitape finite-state automata to cater for root-and-pattern morphology, infixation, circumfixation, and other complex operations. This approach is placed in its context in the history of linguistics. Kiraz is affiliated with the Syriac Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

By the late 1970s, phonologists, and later morphologists, had departed from a linear approach for describing morphophonological operations to a nonlinear one. Computational models, however, remain faithful to the linear model, making it very difficult, if not impossible, to implement the morphology of languages whose morphology is nonconcatanative. This study aims at presenting a computational system that counters the development in linguistics. It provides a detailed computational analysis of the complex morphophonological phenomena found in Semitic languages based on linguistically motivated models.

Computational Nonlinear Morphology provides a detailed computational analysis of the complex morphophonological phenomena found in Semitic languages.