Table of content

• Introduction
• The Nouns
• The Adjectives
• The Verbs
• The closed classes
  • The Pronouns
  • The subjunctions and conjunctions
  • The numerals
  • The particles and conjunctions
• Adverbs
• Adpositions

Introduction

• The inflection is covered, with the following exceptions:
  • Comparative and attributive forms of adjectives
  • ...
• The derivation is not covered.

The file structure for the lexicon files is the same as for the other Sami lgs, cf. the flowchart.

The Nouns

Spiik    LEXICON      Type
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even     MUORRA       2syll stem with cg (note Q1)
even     NOADE        2syll stem without cg (note missing Q1)
even     KINO         2syll stem without any morphophonology
even 4sl GÅNÅGIS      4syll stem with cg
even 4sl CELSIUS      4syll stem without cg
odd      ÅRES         oddsyll, cg, C-final, 2ndsyll vowchange
odd      GÁMAS        oddsyll, cg, C-final, no 2ndsyll vowchange
odd      GAHPER       oddsyll, no cg, no vowchange
odd      BENA         oddsyll, cg, vowchange, V-final nominative
cntr     SARVES       cntr C-final with cg
cntr     SUOLOJ       
cntr     GUOMOJ       III-I cg

NB! Note that grade III nouns of the biel'lo type must be added as such in the lexicon, in order not to get wrong CG results. Also, non-gradating nouns must go to different sublexica, and these lexica must point to CG-free case sublexica.

The Adjectives

Spiik   LEXICON      Type
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even 1a GIEVRRA      Attr WeG, -s
even 1b NUORRA       Attr =
even 1c HÁVSSKE      Attr w/o WeG, -s
even 1d UNNE         Attr e > a~e, WeG
even 2  ÁRMMOGIS     Attr = Pred. Nom. Sg.
misc.   ASIDASJ
misc.   TJALMEDIBME
odd a.  TJIEGOS      Adj. on -k, negating on -dahkes, sm adjs on -os
odd b.  BASSTEL      Adj. on -et, -l, -r
odd c.  MUTTÁK       Adj. on -ák,  {aáå}s, Attr -is or ==
odd d.  ALLAK        Adj. on -ak, Attr on -a
odd e.  GALMAS       Adj. on WeG -as, Attr on StrG -a
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The Attribute

The case forms

Comparative and superlative

The Verbs

Intro
The auxiliary verbs have been added. Note the concatenated entries for
auxiliary + negation.


The main verbs are divided in even (-at, -åt, -ot, -et), odd (-it) and
contracted (-átm -åt~ut, -it) stems.


Inflection

...



Derivation

The derivational system takes the Northern Sámi system as a
starting point, but does not (yet) take transitivity into account.


BASSAT -> +V: BASSATStem ; +V DeverbalVerbsBASSAT ;
BASSATStem -> 


The closed classes

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Lule Sami personal pronouns are added to the file
closed-smj.lex.txt. They differ from the corresponding Northern Sami
ones in having uniform sublexica across the different persons. The
initial lexicon Personal splits into nine sublexica, 3 for each
person, each pointing to one sublexicon for each number. The 3 number
sublexica (persproncasesg, etc. then give the case forms.


Demonstrative pronouns

This lexicon contains both declineable and indeclineable entries. The
declineable ones point to two sublexica, demcas and
dátcas. Of these, the former splits into number sublexica.



Reflexive pronouns

In the Reflexive sublexicon, the reflexive pronoun iesj
gets spelled-out forms for the Px-less nominative, whereas the oblique
forms are directed to sublexica for sg and pl. There they get
appropriate stems, and the singular forms are redirected to the
ordinary nominal Px lexica. Acc PxSg1 and Gen PxSg1 have exceptional
forms, they are listed as such.


The plural reflexives do have deviating Px forms, they are listed in
the closed-smj-lex.txt file itself, first by establishing dual and
plural substems for each person (in lexicon PxCiPlstem), and
then by giving the personal suffixes (in lexicon PxCPlstem

Interrogative pronouns

These are mij and guhti. The nominative and partitive of
mij are given separately, as are two nominatives of
guhti. Furthermore, mij has some idiosyncratic
forms. The rest are generated in lexicon oblintercas.

Indefinite pronouns

This has not been done, the lexicon has only one entry, the pronoun
vehi.

Subjunctions and Conjunctions

10-20 subjunctions and conjunctions are listed, and given appropriate tags.



Numerals

All basic numerals are listed, and given appropriate case
inflection. No attempts have been done wrt. making a numeral generator
(for combinations of numerals, such as fivehundredandtwentyfour,
etc.). The documentation in Spiik was not entirely clear on this point
(are complex numeral written in one word or not, and how is the case
inflection?)


Particles and Interjections

4-5 particles and interjections are listed, and given tags.



Adverbs

The file adv-smj-lex.txt contains lexical adverbs. Still missing is
defect case paradigms, and adverbs derived from adjectives.



Adpositions

The file differs between pre- and postpositions.





Trond Trosterud

Last modified: Thu Jun 20 00:38:19 CEST 2002