Complex Morphology and its Impact on Lexicology: the Kartvelian Case
Abstract
This paper deals with the impact of complex morphological structures on essential aspects of lexicology. On the basis of data from the so-called Kartvelian (South-Caucasian) language family (consisting of Georgian and its sister-languages), it discusses questions of how to lemmatize nominal and verbal word forms so that they can be arranged in a consistent and appropriate way in dictionaries and databases. The most prominent approaches that have been developed since the first attempt to provide a dictionary of Georgian (Paolini & Irbachi 1629) are analyzed with a view to their applicability, usability, and conclusiveness.
Session
Plenary Lectures
Keywords
Kartvelian; Georgian; history of lexicography
BibTex
@InProceedings{ELX2016-001,
author={Jost Gippert},
title={Complex Morphology and its Impact on Lexicology: the Kartvelian Case},
pages={16-36},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th EURALEX International Congress},
year={2016},
month={sep},
date={6-10},
address={Tbilisi, Georgia},
editor={Tinatin Margalitadze, George Meladze},
publisher={Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University Press},
isbn={978-9941-13-542-2},
}
