The current UD Mar standard is indeed to treat the two as separate lemmas,
or at least split tokens, so I would go with whatever is the most similar
to that.
Sorry I'm not on IRC, bit busy over xmas. Cheers!
— V
On 26 Dec 2017 9:58 am, "Shardul Chiplunkar" <shardul.chiplun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an issue which was briefly discussed on IRC on 2017-12-26, and
> Jonathan advised me to post about it here. It is about possessive
> determiners in Marathi.
>
> Minimal examples:
> 1. "tyacha ghoda" = "his horse" (horse is masculine)
> 2. "ticha ghoda" = "her horse"
> 3. "tyachi gay" = "his cow" (cow is feminine)
> 4. "tichi gay" = "her cow"
>
> What these examples show is that the possessive determiners are inflected
> according to the gender of both the possessor and the possessed. This is
> also true for the number of both in Marathi. (There are three genders and
> two numbers.)
>
> Previously, 'tyacha' was being analyzed with the tags <m><sg><gen><m><sg>,
> which is an issue for structural transfer. We discussed two alternatives:
> 1. having XYZ<m><sg>+ch<gen><m><sg>, that is, treating the 'ch' forms as
> separate lemmas
> 2. having XYZ<pm><psg><gen><am><asg>, that is, making separate tags for
> the possessor and the possessed
>
> What is the best way to proceed, with these options or maybe something
> else?
>
> Shardul C.
>
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