Difference between revisions of "Warlpiri/Disambiguation"

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Initial evaluation of ambiguity

• Total number of tokens in corpus: 1416
• Total number of analyses in corpus: 1574

• Number of all forms: 635
• Number of unique forms: 492

Two readings of an ambiguous term

• ^kurdungku/kurdu<n><sg><guio><erg>$ ^witangku/wita<adj><guio><erg>/wita<adj><subst><guio><erg>$ ^ka/ka<vaux><pres>$ ^maliki/maliki<n><sg><guio><abs>$ ^wajilipinyi/wajilipinyi<vb><tv><pres>$^./.<sent>$

Translation: The small child is chasing the dog.

• ^witangku/wita<adj><guio><erg>/wita<adj><subst><guio><erg>$ ^ka/ka<vaux><pres>$ ^maliki/maliki<n><sg><guio><abs>$ ^wajilipinyi/wajilipinyi<vb><tv><pres>$^./.<sent>$

Translation: The small one is chasing the dog.

Note: These sentences are simplified (slightly modified) forms of from the following online grammar source: [1]

Constraints

We'll need to read adjectives as substantive when there is no other noun (or substantive adjective) in the sentence. When is another noun (or substantive adjectives) present with the same case marker, the adjective should not be read as substantive.

I've determined how to remove the substantive adjective form when a noun is to to the left or right, but I haven't figured out how to look at all positions in the sentence or how to select the substantive adjective form in other cases.

Thus my degree of ambiguity has not decreased.