Vol 28 No 3 (2019): Nordic Journal of African Studies
Articles Linguistics
Published
December 31, 2019
Keywords
- computational grammar,
- control,
- LFG,
- morphosyntax,
- pro-drop
- Wolof ...More
Abstract
This paper provides a formal description of the syntactic analysis of core constructions of Wolof clausal/verbal morphosyntax within the Lexical-Functional Grammar formalism. This includes the basic phrase structure, pro-drop, and control relations. The Wolof grammar is implemented in XLE and uses a cascade of finite-state transducers for morphological analysis and tokenization. This work is part of the ongoing process on building language resources and tools for Wolof, in particular a computational grammar.