Difference between revisions of "Kalmyk and Judeo-Tat/Contrastive Grammar"

Revision as of 19:02, 4 April 2017

Resources for machine translation between Judeo-Tat and Kalmyk

Differences between xal and jdt

• There are more noun cases in xal

Things to look for

• possession / possessive suffixes vs pronouns
• genitive constructions in general: 's / of
• cases versus prepositions
• SVO versus SOV

jdt-xal Tests

• jdt uses negative prefix to make a noun negative, xal does not

• (jdt) битоб → (xal) саваго "impatience"

  (jdt) битоб<n><neg> → (xal) саваго<n>

• The use of adverbs vs. articles is different between the languages
• The use of numbers is different between languages

• (jdt) е чор руз → (xal) Эн дөрвдгч өдрнь "a fourth day"

  (jdt) е<adv> чор<num> руз<n> → (xal) Эн <n> дөрвдгч <num><ord> өдрнь<n><px3sp>

• The use of classifiers vs. prepositions is different

• (jdt) е жуьфд журубьо → (xal) паре өөмсн "a couple of socks"

  (jdt) е<art> жуьфд<class> журубьо<n><pl> → (xal) паре<conj> өөмсн<n><pl>

xal-jdt Tests

• (xal) саваго → (jdt) битоб "impatience"

  (xal) саваго<n> → (jdt) битоб<n><neg>

• (xal) Эн дөрвдгч өдрнь → (jdt) е чор руз "a fourth day"

  (xal) Эн <n> дөрвдгч <num><ord> өдрнь<n><px3sp> → (jdt) е<adv> чор<num> руз<n>

• (xal) паре өөмсн → (jdt) е жуьфд журубьо "a couple of socks"

  (xal) паре<conj> өөмсн<n><pl> → (jdt) е<art> жуьфд<class> журубьо<n><pl>

Developed Resources

Corpus on GitHub Lexical Transfer on Github