Electronic dictionary of Quechua names and morphology

Abstract

We present here two electronic dictionaries of Quechua names, one with a translation into Spanish and the other into French. Each lexeme includes its syntactic-semantic properties and its corresponding FLX inflectional paradigm. After making an inventory of the nominal suffixes, we show how we have constructed the fundamental matrix that governs the nominal morphology of Quechua, starting with binary agglutination of these suffixes. Then we present the method to obtain the rational grammars that allow us to generate, automatically, using the NooJ linguistic platform, all the noun forms containing two or more suffixes. Then we show how, applying to a small Quechua text, interrogations in NooJ format, the correspondences of the nominal forms recognized in that text, bent or not, are obtained, and how, immediately they can be displayed graphically, in colors, on that text, obtaining a high recognition rate (94%), which proves the degree of precision of our grammars.