Morphological rules of inflection for verbs of the Ludik supradialect (South Ludik dialect)
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About author:
A. P. Rodionova Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, santrar@krc.karelia.ru
A. A. Krizhanovsky Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, andrew.krizhanovsky@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the Ludic supradialect of the Karelian language remains the least documented among the Karelian supradialects. The present article describes the verbal inflectional system of the South Ludic dialect: the types of lexical stems are classified, the verb paradigm is derived, and the morphological regularities that distinguish this dialect from the other supradialects of Karelian are identified. The regularities thus established are formalized as a system of rules underlying a module for the automatic generation of verb word forms in the VepKar corpus.
Objective: to describe and systematize the verbal inflectional system of the South Ludic dialect of the Ludic supradialect of the Karelian language, and to formalize the identified regularities as rules for the automatic generation of verb word forms.
Research materials: verb lemmas and word forms from the Open Corpus of Veps and Karelian Languages (VepKar), together with field materials collected by the author.
Results and novelty of the research: the absence of a systematic description of the verbal morphology of the South Ludic dialect has hitherto impeded both its linguistic study and the corpus annotation of Ludic texts in VepKar. The research comprised: (1) the derivation of a
complete inflectional paradigm of verbs of the South Ludic dialect and the identification of its distinctive features in comparison with the Livvi and Proper Karelian supradialects; (2) the construction of a system of lexical stems, auxiliary stems, and pseudo-stems for verbal inflection; (3) the development of word-form generation rules covering all identified inflectional types, illustrated in tables with paradigm exemplars; (4) the implementation, on the basis of these rules, of a word-form generation module in the Dictorpus corpus manager, which enabled the addition of over 100,000 Ludic verb word forms to the VepKar dictionary and raised the annotation coverage of the subcorpus from 60 % to 75%. A quantitative analysis of the distribution of verbal stem types in the VepKar dictionary and corpus confirmed the representativeness of the lexical database and the predominance of single-stem verbs (approximately 77 % of lemmas; 83 % of tokens). Scientific novelty: the first comprehensive system of rules for the automatic generation of verb word forms for the South Ludic dialect of the Karelian language.
Key words: Karelian language, Ludic dialect, Southern Ludic dialect, corpus linguistics, morphological annotation, verb inflection, word form generation
Acknowledgments: A. A. Krizhanovsky conducted research under the research theme “Random graphs, structure and information retrieval, cooperation and competition in networks, and applications in complex systems”. State registration number: FMEN-2024-0005.
A. P. Rodionova conducted research within the framework of the research work topic “Baltic-Finnish languages of the North-West of Russia in the conditions of digitalization of scientific knowledge”. State registration number: 124022000089-4.
For citation: Rodionova A. P., Krizhanovsky A. A. Morphological rules of inflection for verbs of the Ludik supradialect (South Ludik dialect) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2026; 16 (1/64): 85–99.
Introduction: the Ludic supradialect of the Karelian language remains the least documented among the Karelian supradialects. The present article describes the verbal inflectional system of the South Ludic dialect: the types of lexical stems are classified, the verb paradigm is derived, and the morphological regularities that distinguish this dialect from the other supradialects of Karelian are identified. The regularities thus established are formalized as a system of rules underlying a module for the automatic generation of verb word forms in the VepKar corpus.
Objective: to describe and systematize the verbal inflectional system of the South Ludic dialect of the Ludic supradialect of the Karelian language, and to formalize the identified regularities as rules for the automatic generation of verb word forms.
Research materials: verb lemmas and word forms from the Open Corpus of Veps and Karelian Languages (VepKar), together with field materials collected by the author.
Results and novelty of the research: the absence of a systematic description of the verbal morphology of the South Ludic dialect has hitherto impeded both its linguistic study and the corpus annotation of Ludic texts in VepKar. The research comprised: (1) the derivation of a
complete inflectional paradigm of verbs of the South Ludic dialect and the identification of its distinctive features in comparison with the Livvi and Proper Karelian supradialects; (2) the construction of a system of lexical stems, auxiliary stems, and pseudo-stems for verbal inflection; (3) the development of word-form generation rules covering all identified inflectional types, illustrated in tables with paradigm exemplars; (4) the implementation, on the basis of these rules, of a word-form generation module in the Dictorpus corpus manager, which enabled the addition of over 100,000 Ludic verb word forms to the VepKar dictionary and raised the annotation coverage of the subcorpus from 60 % to 75%. A quantitative analysis of the distribution of verbal stem types in the VepKar dictionary and corpus confirmed the representativeness of the lexical database and the predominance of single-stem verbs (approximately 77 % of lemmas; 83 % of tokens). Scientific novelty: the first comprehensive system of rules for the automatic generation of verb word forms for the South Ludic dialect of the Karelian language.
Key words: Karelian language, Ludic dialect, Southern Ludic dialect, corpus linguistics, morphological annotation, verb inflection, word form generation
Acknowledgments: A. A. Krizhanovsky conducted research under the research theme “Random graphs, structure and information retrieval, cooperation and competition in networks, and applications in complex systems”. State registration number: FMEN-2024-0005.
A. P. Rodionova conducted research within the framework of the research work topic “Baltic-Finnish languages of the North-West of Russia in the conditions of digitalization of scientific knowledge”. State registration number: 124022000089-4.
For citation: Rodionova A. P., Krizhanovsky A. A. Morphological rules of inflection for verbs of the Ludik supradialect (South Ludik dialect) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2026; 16 (1/64): 85–99.
