Networks of morphological relations.
Sean A. Fulop, Sylvain Neuvel · 2014
Whole Word Morphology does away with morphemes, in-stead representing all morphology as relations among sets of words, which we call lexical correspondences. This pa-per presents a more formal treatment of Whole Word Mor-phology than has been previously published, demonstrating how the morphological relations are mediated by unification with sequence variables. Examples from English are pre-sented, as well as Eskimo, the latter providing an example of a highly complex polysynthetic lexicon. The lexical correspon-dences of Eskimo are operative through their interconnection in a network using a symmetric and an asymmetric relation. Finally, a learning algorithm for deriving lexical correspon-dences from an annotated lexicon is presented. 1