Keywords

Lushootseed, Morphosyntactic structure, Language resources and tools

Abstract

In this paper we provide information on an initial prototype investigation, on a modest scale, into the morphosyntactic structure of Lushootseed, a Salish language. We begin by describing language resources and tools that were instrumental for the process: an XML-encoded dictionary, a morphological parser, and a syntactic parser. We then illustrate how the output can be stored in a relational database and queried to extract relationships and statistics about them. We also sketch ongoing work to integrate these tools and render them more accessible to users with modest technical skills.

Original Publication Citation

Deryle Lonsdale and Hitokazu Matsushita (2011). Annotating and exploring Lushootseed morphosyntax. Papers for the 44th Annual International Conference on Salish and NeighbouringLanguages, (Eds. John Lyon and Joel Dunham), University of British Columbia Working Papersin Linguistics Vol 30, pp. 184-193.