FormLang Armenian word formation electronic database

    FormLang is an electronic database of Armenian word formation, which allows you to see the full picture of word composition, variant forms, deviations, and irregularities through searches.

            The database was created within the framework of the scientific research project “Formal description of Armenian vocabulary and creation of the corresponding electronic database” funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

      The author and head of the project is Meri Sargsyan, senior researcher of the Language Institute named after H. Acharyan, PhD, associate professor (http://language.sci.am/hy/comparative-linguistics/meri-sargsyan.html).

        The project “Formal description of Armenian word formation and creation of the corresponding electronic database” program is the first stage of the complex project in full formal description of Armenian. The goal of the program is analyzing more than x thousand words in the modern Armenian vocabulary, formal description of their components, in the case of compound words to reveal the complexity of components, and as the practical application of theoretical work to create an appropriate electronic database.

        Being unique in its kind, this project has theoretical and practical significance, the enormous factual material collected as a result of the formal description of the Armenian vocabulary gives an opportunity to those who are interested in the Armenian language studying word formation on synchronic and diachronic points. The electronic database containing the word-formation analysis of thousands of words has the ability to search for words, free and bound morphemes within them. This means that searching for any root or affix are appearing all the simple, compound, derived, and derived-compound words made up of them. 

 

Scientific publications on FormLang Armenian word formation electronic database

1. Sargsyan Meri, On the Electronic Database of the Armenian Word-Formation, “Katchar”, №2, 2021, pp. 56-65, doi: https://doi.org/10.52853/25792903-2021.2-msoe

2. Sargsyan M.A.(2019) The Goal and Issues of the Formal Description of Armenian Vocabulary and Creation of the Electronic Database.InternationalAcademyJournalWebofScholar. 1(31), Vol.2.doi: 10.31435/rsglobal_wos/31012019/6319

3. Sargsyan Meri, Asilbekyan Shushan, On some of the most controversial issues of the Armenian word-formation, “Contemporary issues of historical study of Armenian language”: collection of scientific papers, Yerevan, 2019, pp. 177-185.
4. Sargsyan Meri, The Features of the Electronic Database of the Armenian Word-Formation, “Language and Speech-2”, collection of scientific papers, Yerevan, 2020, pp. 101-112.

 

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