Kalmyk and Judeo-Tat/Contrastive Grammar

Resources for machine translation between Judeo-Tat and Kalmyk

jdt-xal Tests

1. Kalmyk uses the dative(dative-locative) case to mark nouns that indicate location and answer the question "where?". TODO: Judeo-Tat does not mark this.
   1. For the genitive construction ('s/of), Kalmyk uses the genitive marker on the noun. Judeo-Tat does not use this. TODO: WHAT INSTEAD?

• (jdt) TODO JDT → (xal) Давид хаана төрскн хотнд "the town of David (meaning is closer to 'town where (King) David was born')"

  (jdt) TODO JDT → (xal) Давид<np> хаана<n><gen> төрскн<n> хотнд<n><dat>

1. 1. 1. EXPLANATION FOR FOURTH DAY

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

it's not clear that this is a good translation

• (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