Inflectional Non Compositionality and Variation of Compounds in French, Polish and Serbian, and their Automatic Processing
Résumé
Compounds and other multi-word units are of essential qualitative and quantitative importance in natural languages. We address their linguistic properties in French, Polish and Serbian with respect to their inflectional morphology. We are particularly interested in the cases of morphological non compositionality. We also account for some orthographic, syntactic and semantic variants of compounds. We show how most of the linguistic properties studied can be formally described within the framework of a lexicalized formalism, such as the Multiflex system, meant for an automatic treatment of the computational morphology of compounds.