Marathi Verb Morphology and POS Tagger

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Marathi Verb Morphologyand POS Tagger

• Veena Dixit

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Marathi Verb Morphology

• Marathi verbs inflect for gender, number and
  person of the subject and the direct object in a
  sentence.
• They also inflect for tense and aspect of the
  action as well as mood of the speaker in an
  illocutionary act.
• Postpositions can be attached to verb stems also.
  (???? karane do ?????????? kelyaanantara
  after done)

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• Marathi Verb Morphology
• Inflectional Verb Morphology covers inflection of
  verb root for gender, number, person, tense,
  aspect and mood. (???? basaNe sit ????
  basato)
• Derivational Verb Morphology covers derivation of
  words of other parts of speech obtained either by
  an attachment of suffixes or postpositions to a
  verb stem.
• (???? karaNe do, ???? ???? karataa karataa
  while doing (adverb) ????? kartaa doer
  (adjective / noun))

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• Inflectional Morphology of Marathi Verbs
• Base Aakhyaata Theory

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• Definitions
• Aakhyaata (??????) refers to tense (???), aspect,
  and mood (????).
• Aakhyaata is realized through aakhyaata pratyaya.
  
• Aakhyaata pratyaya (?????? ???????) is the
  closing suffix, which is attached to the verb
  root. (e.g., ???? (sat) )
• The phonemic shape of the Aakhyaata pratyaya is
  the basis of naming the Aakhyaatas.

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• Classification of
• Akhyaata Pratyayas
• On the basis of phonemic shape
• On the basis of Possibility of inflection for
  gender

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Classification of Aakhyaata Pratyayas

• On the basis of phonemic shape
• Prathama taakhyaata ????????????
• Dwitiya taakhyaata ??????????????
• Laakhyaata ???????
• Vaakhyaata ???????
• I aakhyaata ??????
• U aakhyaata ??????
• Ilaakhyaata ????????
• Chaakhyaata/Aayachaakhyaata ???????

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Classification of Aakhyaata Pratyayas (continued)

• On the basis of Possibility of inflection for
  gender
• Salinga aakhyaata agrees with gender.
• Alinga aakhyaata does not agree with gender

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Prathama taakhyaata
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Aakhyaataartha of Prathama Taakhyaata

• Present Tense ??????? ???
• Constant Truth ????????? (frequentive)
• Historical Truth ???????? ????
• Citation / Quotation ?????
• Motive ??????
• Near Past??????? ??????
• Definite Future ?????? ?????????
• Promise ???????
• Habitual Present ???? ??????????