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UDAR Does Accented Russian: A finite-state morphological analyzer of Russian that handles stressed wordforms.
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Make ambiguous transitivity tag (+IT?) #24

Closed reynoldsnlp closed 4 years ago

reynoldsnlp commented 5 years ago

Russian verbs do not inflect for transitivity, so having multiple readings distinguished by transitivity is grammatically inaccurate.

Transitivity tags can be helpful for the CG, so we should specify transitivity when possible, but if the transitivity is ambiguous, there should only be one reading.

reynoldsnlp commented 5 years ago

@snomos Do you know if any GT languages have an ambiguous transitivity tag? If not, do you see anything wrong with using +IT?

reynoldsnlp commented 5 years ago

The idea is to change...

$ echo читает | hurus
читает  читать+V+Impf+IV+Prs+Sg3    5.498047
читает  читать+V+Impf+TV+Prs+Sg3    5.498047

...into...

$ echo читает | hurus
читает  читать+V+Impf+IT+Prs+Sg3    5.498047
snomos commented 5 years ago

I see no major problem, the only detail is that I would probably let the tag be +ITV to make it resemble the other two tags more. An alternative tag format that has been introduced in Greenlandic is +Gram/ITV, where the +Gram/ tag prefix (or domain, so to speak) indicates grammatical information that is not expressed through morphology. Transitivity is an obvious property to specify this way, but one can imagine other grammatical features as well.

If you want to discuss this with a larger audience, I suggest you join our Zulip community: https://giella.zulipchat.com (available both through a stand-alone client, and via a web page). I'll send you an invitation that you can discard if you are not interested :)

reynoldsnlp commented 4 years ago

Moved to https://github.com/giellalt/lang-rus/issues/4