Title :
An HPSG analysis of Arabic passive
Author :
Bhuyan, Md Shariful Islam ; Ahmed, Reaz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka
Abstract :
In spite of being a successful syntactic theory in many respects, head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) has inadequate coverage for morphological constructions, especially for nonconcatenative morphology, which is prominent in the Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew etc. Among various syntactic and semantic phenomenon, passive constructions draws attention of many researchers in theoretical linguistics due to their diversity. Arabic exhibits lexical passives with nonconcatenative morphology. In this paper, we extend the HPSG framework to support the nonconcatenative construction of Arabic passives along with the necessary lexical rules and type hierarchy.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; grammars; mathematical morphology; Arabic passive; HPSG analysis; head-driven phrase structure grammar; lexical rules; nonconcatenative morphology; theoretical linguistics; type hierarchy; Computer science; Helium; Information analysis; Information technology; Morphology; Natural languages; Packaging; Particle measurements; Plugs; Writing; Arabic Morphology; Constraint-based Grammar; Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar; Nonconcatenative Morphology; Passive Construction;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT 2008. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Khulna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2135-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2136-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCITECHN.2008.4803061
