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Introduction to Morphology

Linguistics for Computer Scientists

Session 4

Antske Fokkens

Department of Computational Linguistics





Outline

1 Introduction to Morphology

Introduction

What are morphemes?

2 Subdomains of Morphology

3 Properties of Morphemes

Morphemes and their shapes

Morphological Processes

4 Morphology in Computational Linguistics

Automata

Finite State Transducers

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Introduction to Morphology

Subdomains of Morphology

Properties of Morphemes

Morphology in Computational Linguistics

Introduction

What are morphemes?

Outline

1 Introduction to Morphology

Introduction

What are morphemes?

2 Subdomains of Morphology

3 Properties of Morphemes

Morphemes and their shapes

Morphological Processes

4 Morphology in Computational Linguistics

Automata

Finite State Transducers

Antske Fokkens Morphology 3 / 69

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Introduction to Morphology

Subdomains of Morphology

Properties of Morphemes

Morphology in Computational Linguistics

Introduction

What are morphemes?

What is Morphology?

Morphology is the study of form and structure.

In linguistics, it generally refers to the study of form and

structure of words.

Antske Fokkens Morphology 4 / 69

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Introduction to Morphology

Subdomains of Morphology

Properties of Morphemes

Morphology in Computational Linguistics

Introduction

What are morphemes?

What is morphology?

The term Morphology can refer to three different things

a Description of the behaviour of morphemes and how they

are combined.

b Derivational, inflectional and compositional processes of

word formation occurring in a specific language.

e.g. “German has a richer morphology than English”

c Description of such word formation processes.

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