In this paper, we propose an alternative to interlingua which can capture the analyses and generalizations that interlinguas can express, but which uses cross-linguistic semantic features rather than a separate level of representation. This alternative we call lexico-structural transfer. Lexico-structural transfer relies on the expressive power of a lexicalized syntactic representation (or “lex...

The historical corpus of Hungarian contains about 20 million running words at the moment. To be able to retrieve the occurrences of the lexemes, a morphological analyser programme was developed which is able to segment the running words and identifies the lexeme and the suffixes. Over 30% of the running words can have more then one correct analysis. Therefore we are aiming to develop methods fo...

We discuss two types of asymmetry between wordforms and their (morphological) characteristics, namely (morphological) variants and homographs. We introduce a concept of multiple lemma that allows for unique identification of wordform variants as well as ‘morphologicallybased’ identification of homographic lexemes. The deeper insight into these concepts allows further refining of morphological d...

The subject of this article is a description of Polish inflection in the form of a relational database. The description has been developed for a grammatical dictionary of Polish that aims at complete inflectional characterisation of all Polish lexemes. We show some complexities of the Polish inflectional system for various grammatical classes. Then we present a relatively compact relational mod...