When grammar can't be trusted - Valency and semantic categories in North Sámi syntactic analysis and error detection

• Main Author: Wiechetek, Linda
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2018
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010; VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Sami language: 031; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Samisk språk: 031; VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Applied linguistics: 012; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Anvendt språkvitenskap: 012; VDP::Technology: 500::Information and communication technology: 550::Computer technology: 551; VDP::Teknologi: 500::Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi: 550::Datateknologi: 551; DOKTOR-001; Dego; North Sámi; sami; Sámi; samisk
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12726

In this dissertation, I investigate valencies and syntactically relevant semantic categories in North Sámi. In addition, I develop three machine-readable grammars for the North Sámi grammar checker GoDivvun that have access to valencies and semantics. Like a human, a machine-readable grammar analyze...