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The main objective of this paper is to detect and describe major derivational processes and affixes used in the derivation of aspectually connected Croatian verbs. This kind of analysis is enabled by previous detection of verbal derivational families, i.e. families of verbs with the same root as well as the derivational affixes they contain. Using NooJ, we automatically detect such derivational processes and assign the aspectual tag to derivatives. The procedure is based on the list of selected base forms and derivatives, on the list of derivational affixes and their allomorphs, and on the set of derivational rules. For this objective we selected 15 verbal derivational families comprising app. 250 derivatives in total. The output is being used for the development of a large on-line database of Croatian aspectual pairs, triples and quadruplets. Such a resource will be valuable for various research works in lexicology and lexicography.
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Notes
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Although the element se is normally regarded as a reflexive particle and not treated as an affix in Croatian textbooks on this subject, for the sake of demonstration we treat it here as a suffix.
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Complete data for this derivational family and other discussed in the paper can be retrieved from http://croderiv.ffzg.hr/.
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➙ stands for ‘changes into’.
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The dictionary is continuously updated with new verbs. Thus, the number of main entries may vary from any previous and future references to this dictionary.
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In the present stage, we have treated the prefixes and their allomorphes as separate units in order to make the grammars in Nooj more simple and easier to process.
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Note that bes- and bez- are actually allomorphs of the prefix bez-, and that sa- and z- are allomorphs of the prefix s-. The prefix i- is actually an allomorph of the prefix iz-. Therefore, it would be correct to say that only three prefixes are found only in position P.
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In this case, the prefix i- is an allomorph of the prefix iz-, raza- and ras- are allomorphs of the prefix raz-, pret- is an allomorph of pred-, poda- is an allomorph of pod- and us- is an allomorph of uz-.
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Šojat, K., Kocijan, K., Filko, M. (2019). Processing Croatian Aspectual Derivatives. In: Mirto, I., Monteleone, M., Silberztein, M. (eds) Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications. NooJ 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10868-7_5
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