Morphological Analysis (a Formal Approach)

Since 1972 a researcher team in Bonn has been working on the automatic syntax-analysis of the german language. The morphoJogical analysis is a part of this work that has already been formalized and programmed by the author. We can consider the following paper as a generalization of this formalized description. In this first chapter some expressions like " t e x t " or "lexicon " are considered clear by intuition. Later on we'll get to know the exact definitions. The basis o f each description of a text of any language is a morphological analysis of this text. One can easily agree that such a description has to be derived from the words or sentences of the text which is to be described. The expression "description of a text" is understood in a very general sense.. One can imagine a syntactic description or a semantic interpretation or a combination of both of them or any other information. In a natural language the number of the possible texts is not finite. That's easy to prove because of the following sentences: