Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology
<|reference_start|>Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology: This paper demonstrates how a (multi-tape) two-level formalism can be used to write two-level grammars for Arabic non-linear morphology using a high level, but computationally tractable, notation. Three illustrative grammars are provided based on CV-, moraic- and affixational analyses. These are complemented by a proposal for handling the hitherto computationally untreated problem of the broken plural. It will be shown that the best grammars for describing Arabic non-linear morphology are moraic in the case of templatic stems, and affixational in the case of a-templatic stems. The paper will demonstrate how the broken plural can be derived under two-level theory via the `implicit' derivation of the singular.<|reference_end|>
@article{kiraz1994computational,
    title={Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology},
    author={George A. Kiraz},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9408002},
    year={1994},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9408002},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}