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Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics

Verb-initial grammars: A multilingual/parallel perspective

The Malagasy PARGRAM Project
ESRC Project RES-000-23-0505

We have developed a broad-coverage computational lexicon and grammar for Malagasy, an Austronesian language spoken in Madagascar. The grammar was written as a part of the PARGRAM project, a project to develop linguistically sound, large-scale grammars within the syntactic framework of Lexical Functional Grammar.

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Papers and Presentations

2005 "A Two-Level Morphology of Malagasy" (Mary Dalrymple, Maria Liakata, and Lisa Mackie), presented at the Two-Level Morphology Day workshop at the Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing Conference in Helsinki, Finland.
2005 "A Two-Level Morphology of Malagasy" (Mary Dalrymple, Maria Liakata, and Lisa Mackie), presented at the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation in Taipei, Taiwan. Download the PDF of the presentation.
2006 "Simple Sentences in Malagasy" (Charles Randriamasimanana), in Streams Converging Into an Ocean: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Jen-kuei Li on his 70th Birthday, edited by Henry Y. Chang, Lillian M. Huang, and Dah-ah Ho. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2006 "Malagasy Control Structures" (Charles Randriamasimanana), presented at the Second Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics (ALL2), 2-3 June 2006, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
2006 "Tokenization and Morphological Analysis for Malagasy" (Mary Dalrymple, Maria Liakata, and Lisa Mackie), International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 11(4), 315-332. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.