HaG 0.2 

Author: Berthold Crysmann
August 2009

Early version of my nascent Hausa grammar. 

This grammar is distributed under the LGPLLR, a version of the LGPL for
linguistic resources. See LICENSE for details.

Currently features:

* Tone/length

- Flexible treatment of tone/length annotation (Crysmann 2009):
  
  Full, high tone marked, low tone marked, none

  Conventions are detected from the input (assuming consistent
  marking strategy) and interpretation of unmarked segments is 
  automatically inferred.  

- Partial specification of tone (include root_supra_robust as start symbol).
  
  No inference for unmarked tone, no consistency assumption

  Intended for interactive specification of individual tone/length 
  specifications

* Morphology

- Noun plural classes I-VI, VIII, IX, XII, covering holistic tone
  pattern assignment, gemination root consonant reduplication, partial
  and full reduplication.

- Most TAM categories including absolutive/relative alternation

- Verb grades 0-4, 6 & 7


* Syntax

- A treatment of frame alternation (direct object marking).

- A unified treatment of genitive marking and direct object marking 
  (Crysmann 2005, to appear)	
  
- Extraction and relative clauses

- PP modifiers



To run this grammar, you will need:

- A version of the ISO10646-encoded Helvetica X11 fonts that provides Hausa 
  hooked letters (included with the grammar). 
  
  To install:  

  make fonts 
  

- LKB from LOGON branch.

  Owing to a CLIM bug, hooked letters (viz. ɓ, ɗ, ƙ) do not display 
  in fonts other than Helvetica 12pt regular medium.
  In particular, letters do not display correctly in the "Parse input..." 
  dialog, but processing is fine.   

  Alternatively, you can invoke 
  (do-parse-tty "ɗaalìbii yaa sàaci bindigoogii")  
  from the Lisp buffer, or substitute hooked letters (e.g. "ɓ" = "b'"). 

  The grammar includes patches to the LKB to work around the font problem
  for most displays (parse chart, MRS etc.) except input dialogs.