{"id":1063,"date":"2016-10-07T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?page_id=1063"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:34:18","slug":"grammar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>Grammar, specifically morphology, is a big part of the current version of Language Explorer. Rather then dive into to all of the various grammar-related &#8220;features&#8221;, we suggest that you look at the following document which describes how Language Explorer approaches morphophonology and morphotactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.languagetechnology.org\/fieldworks\/Documentation\/Intro%20to%20Parsing\/ConceptualIntroduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conceptual Introduction to FLEx Grammar.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Example Sketch<\/h3>\n<p>Another way to see what is included at this point in the way of grammar is to look a one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/resources\/tutorial\/grammar\/sketch\/\">automatically generated grammar sketches<\/a> produced with Language Explorer. <a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.languagetechnology.org\/fieldworks\/Documentation\/KalabaSketch.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is one<\/a> from our made-up test language, Kalaba.<\/p>\n<h3>Parsing<\/h3>\n<p>The following is taken from Andy Black&#8217;s CTC 04 presentation about the parsing abilities of FieldWorks Language Explorer:<\/p>\n<p>Morphological parsing is useful for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interlinearizing text\n<ul>\n<li>Break down the words into their morphemes and give each morpheme a gloss, category, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spelling check\n<ul>\n<li>Word grammar check<\/li>\n<li>Can this word be analyzed given the current state of the lexicon and word grammar?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A mechanism for language discovery\n<ul>\n<li>Discovering generalizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Develop a lexicon of morphemes<\/li>\n<li>Develop a formalized morphology\/word grammar<\/li>\n<li>Adaptation from one related language to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andy Black and Gary Simons wrote the following paper in 2006: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.sil.org\/sites\/scholars\/files\/gary_f_simons\/preprint\/flexparser_preprint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer Approach to Morphological Parsing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Distinctives of Current Tool<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Morphological Sketch<br \/>\nCan get a <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/resources\/tutorial\/grammar\/sketch\/\">write-up<\/a> describing the current state of the grammar at any time.<\/li>\n<li>Notions common to Grammar I:<br \/>\nThe linguistic notions of root, stem, inflection, derivation, compound rules, and clitics are modeled directly.<\/li>\n<li>Stealth-to-wealth<br \/>\nA user doesn&#8217;t have to know what a given form is \u2013 they can mark it as unknown until they know.<\/li>\n<li>Inflection:\n<ul>\n<li>Has inflectional templates as a construct.<\/li>\n<li>Has tools for building inflectional templates.<\/li>\n<li>Has a special help tool for glossing inflectional affixes.<\/li>\n<li>Allows for inflection classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Morphological Parsing:\n<ul>\n<li>Use and maintain a wordform inventory.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between parses which have been approved by the user and parses predicted by the grammar.<\/li>\n<li>When doing interlinear text analysis, parses predicted by the grammar are shown as defaults. The user can choose or override them.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to show the trace of a parse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wordsets:\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to create sets of wordforms that have a common theme; for example:\n<ul>\n<li>A given paradigm, including well-formed and ill-formed wordforms;<\/li>\n<li>Words with a common phonological process; or<\/li>\n<li>Words with compounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ability to check the accuracy of the predictions of the current grammar for each such wordset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Residue:\n<ul>\n<li>Allow for &#8220;unmarked&#8221; affixes.<\/li>\n<li>Allow the user to write ad hoc prohibitions for morphemes.<\/li>\n<li>Allow the user to write ad hoc prohibitions for allomorphs.<\/li>\n<li>Allow the user to group ad hoc prohibitions to capture some common characteristic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ability\/Potential to integrate with the rest of the FieldWorks tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/resources\/tutorial\/grammar\/categories\/\">Grammatical Categories<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/resources\/tutorial\/grammar\/sketch\">Grammar Sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Grammar, specifically morphology, is a big part of the current version of Language Explorer. Rather then dive into to all of the various grammar-related &#8220;features&#8221;, we suggest that you look at the following document which describes how Language Explorer approaches morphophonology and morphotactics: Conceptual Introduction to FLEx Grammar. 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