Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
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Synopsis
Computational Nonlinear Morphology provides a detailed computational analysis of the complex morphophonological phenomena found in Semitic languages.
Table of Contents
Preface; Abbreviations and acronyms; Transliteration of Semitic; Errata and corrigenda; 1. Introduction; 2. Survey of semitic nonlinear morphology; 3. Survey of finite-state morphology; 4. Survey of semitic computational morphology; 5. A multitier nonlinear model; 6. Modeling semitic nonlinear morphology; 7. Compiliation into multitape automata; 8. Conclusion; References; Quotation credits; Language, word, and morpheme index; Name index; Subject index.