Seminar: Linguistics Program Faculty Speaker Series

Rafael Finkel & Greg Stump, Computer Science Dept and Linguistics Program

Software for research in morphology.

This talk describes and demonstrates software that we have built to assist researchers in morphology. We start with KATR, an implementation of default inheritance hierarchies, showing how its features add to the basic features of DATR. We then display a PFM (Paradigm Functional Morphology) web site that allows the user to build and debug PFM theories. Finally, we show a plat analyzer tool, also web-accessible, that uses the concept of principal parts to construct various analyses of language paradigm charts.