An HPSG-based Formal Grammar of a Core Fragment of Georgian Implemented in TRALE
| Thesis title in Czech: | An HPSG-based Formal Grammar of a Core Fragment of Georgian Implemented in TRALE |
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| Thesis title in English: | An HPSG-based Formal Grammar of a Core Fragment of Georgian Implemented in TRALE |
| Key words: | formal grammar, Georgian, HPSG, TRALE |
| English key words: | formal grammar, Georgian, HPSG, TRALE |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2010/2011 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL) |
| Supervisor: | Ing. Alexandr Rosen, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 30.11.2010 |
| Date of assignment: | 30.11.2010 |
| Date and time of defence: | 06.09.2011 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 28.08.2011 |
| Date of submission of printed version: | 05.08.2011 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 06.09.2011 |
| Opponents: | RNDr. Jiří Hana, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The Georgian language is remarkably different from Indo-European languages and has many interesting and ? from the computational point of view ? challenging phenomena: high degree of agglutination, free word order, polypersonal verbal agreement, split ergativity, etc.
On the other hand, HPSG is a very powerful and highly lexicalized grammar formalism and one of the most popular formalisms nowadays. The goal of the thesis is to build a formal grammar for the core of Georgian in the formalism of HPSG. The research will involve a formal analysis of most lexical and morphological categories as typed featured structures, and of the following syntactic phenomena as principles of a formal grammar: a) Free constituent order b) Complementation (verbal) c) Adjunction (adverbials, attributes) d) Embedded clauses/predicates e) Ergative The formal grammar will be implemented in TRALE, a system for testing and exploiting constraint-based grammars using typed feature structures. The coverage and performance of the system will be evaluated against a test suite of relevant examples exhaustively illustrating the described phenomena. |
| References |
| 1] K. Pkhakadze, Fundamentals of the modern logical grammar of the Georgian language (in Georgian), Scientific-educational journal ? Georgian language and logic, January?June, 2005.
[2] A. Shanidze, Fundamentals of the Georgian grammar, Tbilisi, 1942. [3] C. Pollard & I. Sag., Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. [4] M. Haji-Abdolhosseini & G. Penn, TRALE reference manual. 2003. |