Re: [FLEx] FLEx to parse reduplication involving suffixation?

[Kevin Warfel]

It appears to me that your reduplication is being represented as two words. Both of FLEx's parsers are currently restricted to operating on a single word, so there is no way to get the parser to recognize what is going on in the language you are studying unless it were all to be written together as a single word.

-Kevin

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Soung-U Kim <582...@soas.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi guys

I've been churning over this problem in FLEx and can't quite get my head around it.

In the language that I am studying, you have a particular way of reduplication which is used as an emphasis for stative verbs:

nopʰ- 'be_high' --> [nopʰ-ɨ-n nopʰ-ɨ-n hɒ-], be_high-EPENTHETIC_VOWEL-? be_high-EPENTHETIC_VOWEL-? do-, 'be fairly/very high'

As you see, a verb stem is suffixed with an -n (alongside vowel epenthesis), then the whole thing is reduplicated, and then the whole phrase builds a light verb construction with a generic verb hɒ-, 'do'. While the light verb is not the problem here (I just treat is as a separate verb), I wonder whether there is a way to use the FLEx parser to parse nopʰ-ɨ-n nopʰ-ɨ-n automatically on the basis of the entries nopʰ-, -ɨ-, and -n.

I found out a way to let FLEx parse vowel epenthesis as a regular process using morpheme templates, but I don't understand how the parsing of reduplication works, as the manual only distinguishes between complete and partial reduplication.

Would this be a case for a more complex parser such as HermitCrab?

Thanks
Soung-U

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