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Architecture of morphological microlexicon

A microlexicon consists of three modules, each with internal hierarchical structure which stratifies each module into directly related strata. Interface fuzziness (e.g. between sub-word units and words, as in compounding, or between words and supra-word units, as in cliticisation) are reflected in small misalignments between the modules at the stratum boundaries.

Syntagmatic ID hierarchy of lemmata:
Part-whole, constituency relations between lexical items (e.g. morphemes - simplex words - derived words - compounds - idioms ... )
Paradigmatic Class hierarchy:
Object/class/type implication/inheritance hierarchy/taxonomy, with/without defaults
Syntagmatic model hierarchy:
QLP hierarchy of interpreted forms, and LF hierarchy of semantic structures.

 


Figure 1: Microlexicon



Dafydd Gibbon
Sat Jan 6 20:59:29 MET 1996