Describing Old Czech Declension Patterns for Automatic Text Analysis

Authors

  • Pavlína Jínová Charles University, Faculty of Arts
  • Boris Lehečka Institute of the Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Karel Oliva Institute of the Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Keywords:

Old Czech morphology, declension patterns, automatic text analysis, i-stems, ja-stems

Abstract

This paper focuses on describing declension patterns in Old Czech (West Slavonic language, stadium between approx.1300 and 1500) which is one part of the base serving the automatic annotation of the Old-Czech Text Bank. Weintroduce our approach to automatic morphological analysis, its principles (historical justifiability, constant regardto system of the language and systematic account of phonological changes) and subparts (a dictionary, a descriptionof patterns, a list of stem changes accompanying declension, rules for sound changes, and the list of exceptions). Wealso illustrate the process of searching for declension patterns of two feminine declensions in complicated mutualinteraction – i-stems and ja-stems. We came to the conclusions that borrowed endings documented in availableresources (forms like zem-ech (LOC.PL, combination of ja-stem noun zem-ě (a land) with i-stem ending -ech) arenot exceptions; they belong to the system of language and the base for automatic analysis should treat them as such.

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Published

2014-12-26

How to Cite

Jínová, P., Lehečka, B., & Oliva, K. (2014). Describing Old Czech Declension Patterns for Automatic Text Analysis. Mundo Eslavo, (13), 7–17. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/meslav/article/view/17536

Issue

No. 13 (2014)

Section

Articles

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