El 2017-12-26 09:57, Shardul Chiplunkar escribió:
Hi all,
This is an issue which was briefly discussed on IRC on 2017-12-26, and
Jonathan advised me to post about it here. It is about possessive
determiners in Marathi.
Minimal examples:
1. "tyacha ghoda" = "his horse" (horse is masculine)
2. "ticha ghoda" = "her horse"
3. "tyachi gay" = "his cow" (cow is feminine)
4. "tichi gay" = "her cow"
What these examples show is that the possessive determiners are
inflected according to the gender of both the possessor and the
possessed. This is also true for the number of both in Marathi. (There
are three genders and two numbers.)
Previously, 'tyacha' was being analyzed with the tags
<m><sg><gen><m><sg>, which is an issue for structural transfer. We
discussed two alternatives:
1. having XYZ<m><sg>+ch<gen><m><sg>, that is, treating the 'ch' forms
as separate lemmas
2. having XYZ<pm><psg><gen><am><asg>, that is, making separate tags
for the possessor and the possessed
What is the best way to proceed, with these options or maybe something
else?
Another option is to have
tya-
ti-
as separate lemmas.
If that is a bit distasteful, then I'd go with option (1).
Fran
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