GF Russian Resource Library

where ExtraEngAbs is a collection of syntactic structures specific to English, and
DictEngAbs is an English dictionary (at the moment, it consists of IrregEngAbs,
the irregular verbs of English). Each of these language-specific grammars has the
potential to grow into a full-scale grammar of the language. These grammars can
also be used as libraries, but the possibility of using functors is lost.
To give a better overview of language-specific structures, modules like are built
(for example, ExtraEngAbs) from a language-independent module ExtraAbs by
restricted inheritance:
abstract ExtraEngAbs = Extra [f,g,...]
Thus any category and function in Extra may be shared by a subset of all languages.
One can see this set-up as a matrix, which tells what Extra structures are
implemented in what languages. For the common API in Grammar, the matrix is
filled with 1’s (everything is implemented in every language).
Language-specific extensions and the use of restricted inheritance is a recent
addition to the resource grammar library, and has only been exploited in a very
small scale so far. ExtraAbs and DictAbs are not implemented for Russian.
3 Resource
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This module contains operations that are needed to make the resource syntax
work. To define everything that is needed to implement Test, it moreover contains
regular lexical patterns needed for Lex.
resource ResRus = ParamX ** open Prelude in {
flags coding=utf8 ; optimize=all ;
The flag coding=utf8 indicates that Russian grammars use UTF-8 encoding for
Cyrillic letters. The flag optimize=all turns on the optimization procedure, which
can result in reducing the grammar size up to 50% of the original.
3.1 Enumerated parameter types
These types are the ones found in school grammars. Their parameter values are
atomic. Some parameters, such as Number, are inherited from ParamX.
Declination forms depend on Case, Animacy , Gender: bolьxie doma - bolьxih
domov (big houses - big houses’); and on Number: bolьxo� dom - bolьxie doma
(a big house - big houses).
There are three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. A number of Russian
nouns have common gender. They can denote both males and females: umnica (a
clever person), inжener (an engineer). We overlook this phenomenon for now.
param
Gender = Masc | Fem | Neut ;
There are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instructive and prepositional:
Case = Nom | Gen | Dat | Acc | Inst | Prepos ;
Animacy plays role only in the Accusative case (Masc Sg and Plural forms): Accusative
Animate = Genitive, Accusaive Inanimate = Nominative � l�bl� bolьxie
doma - � l�bl� bolьxih muжqin (I love big houses - I love big men):
Animacy = Animate | Inanimate ;
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