A Formal Description of Sorani Kurdish Morphology
This work addresses a gap in computational linguistics for Sorani Kurdish, an understudied language, by formalizing its morphology for practical applications.
The paper tackled the lack of computational attention to Sorani Kurdish morphology by providing a formal description of its complex morphological and morphophonological constructions, enabling their use as finite-state transducers for analysis and synthesis.
Sorani Kurdish, also known as Central Kurdish, has a complex morphology, particularly due to the patterns in which morphemes appear. Although several aspects of Kurdish morphology have been studied, such as pronominal endoclitics and Izafa constructions, Sorani Kurdish morphology has received trivial attention in computational linguistics. Moreover, some morphemes, such as the emphasis endoclitic =îş, and derivational morphemes have not been previously studied. To tackle the complex morphology of Sorani, we provide a thorough description of Sorani Kurdish morphological and morphophonological constructions in a formal way such that they can be used as finite-state transducers for morphological analysis and synthesis.