Arabic-L:LING:New Book on Arabic Morphology

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Wed 08 Aug 2001
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
           unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory-------------------------------------

1) Subject: New Book on Arabic Morphology

-------------------------Messages--------------------------------------
1)
Date:  08 Aug 2001
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book on Arabic Morphology

Computational Nonlinear Morphology
with emphasis on Semitic languages

George Anton Kiraz, Nuance Communications


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.

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 Multi-Tier Nonlinear Model; 6. The CV Approach; 7.
Compiliation Into Multi-Tape Automata; 8. Conclusion; QUOTATION CREDITS
Studies in Natural Language Processing

2001/c. 202 pp./84 line diagrams
0-521-63196-3/Hb/List: $64.95*

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of Arabic-L: 08 Aug 2001