Constructing a Romanian Electronic
Dictionary.
Some Remarks on the Noun
and Adjective Inflection System
Andrei Filip (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Abstract
In this paper we concentrate upon the description of
the noun and adjective inflectional system and its implementation in the
Intex/NooJ system for the Romanian module of the electronic dictionary of
LexSem (The Autonomous University of Barcelona).
Our first part of the speech focuses on the noun
inflection system. We had to take into consideration four main factors when
conceiving our graphs: the genre, the number, the case and finally whether they
are inflected with the definite article or not. It is necessary to mention here
that in Romanian, unlike in other Romance languages, the definite article is
enclitic and thus it is an inflectional form of the noun. The genre issue lead
us to a first classification where we discriminate between the masculine, the
feminine and the neuter. These classes are further divided into ten different
types for the masculine nouns, fourteen subclasses for the feminine and seven
for the neuter according to the way they form the plural. Finally, the
inflection system for each of the five cases in Romanian was added to our
graphs.
On the other hand, as far as the adjective inflection
system is regarded we had to take into account both the genre and number as
well as the inflection for the five cases, namely the Nominative, the Accusative,
The Genitive, the Dative and the Vocative. We need to specify that in case
determiners precede the nouns they take over their inflectional system. Thus we
need further subdivisions of the graphs so as to describe these particular
instances.