italian mor

[Anna Gudmundson]

Dear Brian and others,

I have been trying to make changes in the italian mor rules, adding
or changing some features for nouns, articles, verbs and pronouns.
But there are some output, concerning for example the articles,
that I can't understand.

I've split the articles in two groups - det:def and det:indef, but I
don't think that has anything to do with my problem, since I've also
changed the names in the c-rules as follow:

lexicon
gli {[scat det:def] [gen masc] [num sg]}
l' {[scat det:def] [num sg]}

c-rules
RULENAME: bare-start
CTYPE: START
 if
 NEXTCAT = [scat OR det:def det:indef prepart conj part prep pro:
rel pro:int pro:indef \
   pro:pers pro:dem pro:refl vpart vimp vinf vpres vsub vpret vpas]
 then
 RESULTCAT = NEXTCAT
 RULEPACKAGE = {}

Before I changed the names of the articles the category  "art" was
declared  in the c-rule, shouldn't that have been "det"?

This is the result of the parsing of "gli" and "l'":

mor (:h help)> gli
Debugging file: Superbob:Applications:CLANX:lib:mor:italian:
debug.cdc
parse 1:
	lex info: {[scat pro:pers] [pers 3] [cas dat] [gen masc]}
	morphemes: gli
	translation:
parse 2:
	lex info: {[scat det:def] [gen masc] [num sg]}
	morphemes: gli
	translation:

Result: pro:pers|gli&MASC^det:def|gli&MASC

mor (:h help)> l'
Debugging file: Superbob:Applications:CLANX:lib:mor:italian:
debug.cdc
parse 1:
	lex info: {[scat pro:pers] [num sg] [pers 3] [cas acc]}
	morphemes: l'
	translation:
parse 2:
	lex info: {[scat det:def] [num sg]}
	morphemes: l'
	translation:

Result: pro:pers|l'^det:def|l'

My question is, why is "gen" the only feature shown in the output,
and not, for example, "num"? I cannot find any place, neither in the
a-rules nor in the c-rules that handles this phenomena.

Then I have another question concerning the feature [c b], what
does it do? It is added in the a-rules, never matched but deleted in
the c-rules as follow:

RULENAME:	noun-stems
LEX-ENTRY:  masc-o
LEXSURF = $Xo
LEXCAT = [scat n]  	
ALLO:
ALLOSURF = $X		% masc sg
ALLOCAT = LEXCAT, ADD [gen masc], ADD [num sg], ADD [c b]

RULENAME: n-gennum
CTYPE: -
 if
 STARTCAT = [scat OR n ndim adj adv pro:dem pro:poss vpart]
 NEXTCAT = [scat nsfx]
 MATCHCAT [gen]
 MATCHCAT [num]
 then
 RESULTCAT = STARTCAT, NEXTCAT [gen], NEXTCAT [num], DEL [c]
 RULEPACKAGE = {}


Maybe my questions are a bit unclear, but I would really appreciate
some help in this matter.

Many thanks in advance

Anna :-)

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Anna Gudmundson
Institutionen för franska och italienska
Stockholms universitet
+46(8)163588
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