Testing the Word-Based Model in the Ontological Analysis of Modern Greek Derivational Morphology

Abstract

AbstractIn the present article we explore the Item and Process (IP) approach - frequently known as Word-Based (WB) - as a theoretical model to ontologically represent the interconnection between derivatives of Modern Greek (MG). The model puts emphasis on the word as an indivisible base unit, the template rules to which words are subsumed to form new ones and the kind of relationships they establish. After a brief MG morphological analysis and the representation of various WB formation rules we proceed to test those on the MMoOn model in order to check its ontological expressiveness. In doing so we adopt an as possible top-down approach so that templates dynamically link to their respective lexical instances. Although the model generally satisfies the IP paradigm specifications it seems deficient in dealing with MG language-specific derivational rules or directional peculiarities and not very persuasive in terms of input-output categorial change representation as well as in dealing with derivatives at lexical-to-hyper-lexical level. To tackle these issues, we propose possible solutions and present their advantages in each case.KeywordsIP morphologyWord-based morphologyMMoOnOntologiesLinguistic linked dataModern Greek derivation