The Aim

              The formal description of the Armenian word formation and creation of the corresponding electronic database have a concrete aim: It is to reveal the structural system of the Armenian vocabulary, to serve the computer programs, etc.

       The formal description of the Armenian vocabulary enables to reveal as the regular structures, as well as the variative forms, deflections, and irregularities with frequency data with their automatic analysis and the possibility of derivation.

     The electronic database is unique in its kind, with the volume and vocabulary coverage, and completely solves the problems of word formation.

      The database can serve a wide range of people, especially it can be useful to:

1. linguists or students of philology faculties who want to: 1.1.to study the Armenian word-formation on synchronic and diachronic points, to discover the basic patterns of the formation of new words, 1.2. by the thousands of examples to find out the principles and ways of word formation in the Armenian language, 1.3. to have the full list of the distinguished simple, compound, derived, and derived-compound Armenian words,
2. anyone who is interested in Armenian, who is not fluent in Armenian, who can search and find the word-formation description of any word they search in an online bulk,
3. schoolchildren, applicants, and teachers who want to make an idea of the Armenian word-formation, want to clarify, check out any word-form information, find stems, roots, affixes, and so on,
4. the database will also considerably support the foreign Armenologists who are interested in the Armenian language as the main way of creating new words or performing typological work.