Computational Nonlinear Morphology: With Emphasis on Semitic Languages (Studies in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

Kiraz, George Anton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521631963 ISBN 13: 9780521631969

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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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. Computational Nonlinear Morphology 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.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521631963
• ISBN 13: 9780521631969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194