tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi"

There are some sorts of ‘Preposition + Noun’ combinations in Farsi that apparently a Prepositional Phrase almost behaves as Compound Prepositions. As they are not completely behaving as compounds, it is doubtful that the process of word formation is a morphological one. The analysis put forward by this paper proposes “incorporation” by which an No is incorporated to a Po constructing a compound preposition. In this way tagging prepositions and parsing texts in Natural Language Processing is defined in a proper manner. . | An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi Zahra Abolhassani Chime Research Center of Samt Tehran 14636 in Linguistics zabolhassani@ Abstract There are some sorts of Preposition Noun combinations in Farsi that apparently a Prepositional Phrase almost behaves as Compound Prepositions. As they are not completely behaving as compounds it is doubtful that the process of word formation is a morphological one. The analysis put forward by this paper proposes incorporation by which an No is incorporated to a Po constructing a compound preposition. In this way tagging prepositions and parsing texts in Natural Language Processing is defined in a proper manner. 1 Introduction Prepositions have very versatile functions in Farsi and at the same time very important roles in linguistics especially in computational linguistics. Most of the linguists consider them as members of a closed set in which nothing can be added and behavior of which is completely static. However this paper tries to touch some aspects of the fact that not only this set is not a closed one but also the behaviors of its members are so dynamic that we can call the set a productive one. Having considered this fact about very frequent Farsi prepositions we can come up with a useful model for language recognition. There is a large discrepancy among linguists in classifying Farsi prepositions that whether or not there are compound prepositions and if there are how the process of their word formation should be accounted for as their characteristics are not as straight forward as it is expected from other compound categories. Some Iranian Linguists have ignored this class altogether Khãnlari 1351 Shafaii 1363 Bãteni 1356 Seyed vafaii 1353 . Some believe they are not compound without putting forward any explanation but some sort of description. Homã yanfarox 1337 Sãdeghi 1357 Kalbãsi 1371 . Some believe they are compounds without analyzing them Mashkur 1346 Khatib Rahbar 1367 Gharib 1371 .