Formalización y tratamiento automático del adverbio en quechua

Abstract

In many languages, such as Spanish, adverbs do not inflect neither they derive, whereas in Quechua they do. Indeed, in Quechua there exists a specific set of suffixes that enables to obtain these inflections and derivations using only one suffix. In this article, after building a Boolean matrix of the grammatical binary combinations of these suffixes, I show how to obtain the paradigms which automatically generate the new adverbial forms, first including two suffixes and then three suffixes. Moreover, I also explore the formalization of multi-word adverbial units (MWAU); I show that the syntactic behavior of a compound adverbial form is strictly dependent on the inflection and derivation properties of the individual grammatical categories that compose it. By working with the NooJ linguistic platform, I present some graphic grammars that make possible to automatically generate these transformations and to annotate texts. I conclude with the presentation of our first multilingual electronic dictionary of simple QU adverbs for NLP.