Describing Georgian Morphology with a Finite-State System

摘要

In the paper, application of the Finite State Tools to one of the Southern Caucasian languages, Georgian, is discussed. In Georgian, as in many non-Indo-European agglutinative languages, concatenative morphotactics is impressively productive due to its rich morphology. The presented Georgian Language Morphological Transducer is capable to parse all theoretically possible forms for the lemmata of Georgian nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, numerals, functional words and for most of the lemmata from 72 verb sets.