Northern Sámi and Norwegian

Problems

Generating definiteness

Features we might be able to use: subject/object, theme/focus, prepositions?

• Du dálkasis sáhtii leamaš ávki => Din(det.poss) medisin(ind) kan ha vært til nytte
• Mánná oađđá => Barnet(def) sover (but is this ambiguous?)
• Son lea čeahpes bárdni => Han er en(art) flink(ind) gutt(ind)
• Dá livččii skeaŋka din čeahpes bárdnai => Her er en gave jeg kunne ønske å gi den(art) flinke(def) sønnen(def) deres(det.poss)

Sámi collective nouns are marked Coll, but there's no collective nor mass noun marking in nob.dix, so I guess that's not much help.

Deverbals

Sámi verbs can turn into nouns. We want to be able to put this explicitly into the bidix (eg. sometimes the nob noun is not even based on the nob verb), but if it's not in bidix we want to be able to fall back on a construction using the verb, so

• from geavaheaddjiid/geavahit<V><TV><Der2><Actor><N>
• with fallback => de som bruker<vblex> (or something)
• bidix specified => bruker<n><m>

With the following bidix entries we specify that we want bruker<n><m> in the above example:

    <e><p><l>geavahit<s n="V"/><s n="TV"/></l><r>bruke<s n="vblex"/><s n="pers"/></r></p><par n="__verb"/></e>
    <e><p><l>geavahit<s n="V"/><s n="TV"/><s n="Der2"/><s n="Actor"/><s n="N"/></l><r>bruker<s n="n"/><s n="m"/></r></p><par n="__n"/></e>

while if the second bidix line isn't there, we get the fallback. Transfer rules can now check

 <equal><clip side="tl" part="pos" ...><lit-tag v="N"/></equal>
 <equal><clip side="sl" part="pos" ...><lit-tag v="V"/></equal>

The same specification/fallback might be applied with other Derivations.

Derivations

Note: Við eigum að breyta mörk neðan af því að það er ekki hægt að nota /. í mörkum í apertium. En þá eigum við að breyta CG líka...

Tag	Type	Notes
Der/Dimin	Diminutive
Der/adda	suffix
Der/ahtti	suffix
Der/alla	suffix
Der/amoš	suffix
Der/asti	suffix
Der/aš	suffix
Der/d	suffix
Der/duohkai	suffix
Der/duohke	suffix
Der/eaddji	suffix
Der/eamoš	suffix
Der/eapmi	suffix
Der/easti	suffix
Der/g	suffix
Der/geahtes	suffix
Der/goahti	suffix	Inchoative: "Boradišgohten": "Jeg begynte å holde måltid"
Der/h	suffix
Der/halla	suffix
Der/hat	suffix
Der/heapmi	suffix
Der/hudda	suffix
Der/huhtti	suffix
Der/huvva	suffix
Der/j	suffix
Der/l	suffix
Der/las	suffix
Der/laš	suffix
Der/lágan	suffix
Der/meahttun	suffix
Der/muš	suffix
Der/n	suffix
Der/st	suffix
Der/stuvva	suffix
Der/supmi	suffix
Der/upmi	suffix
Der/us	suffix
Der/viđi	suffix
Der/viđá	suffix
Der/vuohta	suffix
Der/vuolde	suffix
Der/vuollai	suffix
Der/vuolle	suffix
Der/š	suffix

See also

• Pending tests