A Morpheme-Based Paradigm for the Ontological Analysis of Modern Greek Derivational Morphology

Abstract

AbstractMorphology is the linguistic field that investigates the minimal meaningful units within words and their interactive processes. In coping with the ontological representation of Modern Greek (MG) derivational morphology the morpheme-based or lexicalist paradigm was tested due to the highly productive concatenative nature of the language. Following this, a specific domain ontological model, the MMoOn was chosen to assess MG morpheme-based morphological representation while being prepared to incorporate other formation approaches when required by the lexical data. Among others, MMoOn was chosen because of its targeted morphological character, its conceptual granularity, the covering of derivational aspects of morphology, its elasticity of embedding different inflectional language data models and its reference to previous frameworks. Accordingly, the model was appropriately extended for the MG language schema and tested towards a very productive MG derivational pattern revealing its high dynamics of representation and usability as a computed lexical inventory that semantically interlinks its entries.KeywordsModern Greek morphologyLinguistic linked dataMMoOnOntologiesDerivation