Functional-Semantic Analysis of Grammaticalized Verbal Forms in Georgian and Homonymy Caused by Them in Corpus Linguistics

Mariam Rukhadze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Abstract

The paper refers to the process of grammaticalization, functional-semantic analysis of the grammaticalized verbal form in Georgian Language, and the ways to tackle the problems arisen due to the grammaticalized elements in computer linguistics. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate grammaticalized verbal form čan-s (it_is_visible-PRS.S.3.SG) – It is visible vs. It seems; and semantic and functional aspects of this item. The research is based on the corpus method, both the corpus-based and the corpus-oriented methods and is carried out on the basis of the Georgian National corpus (GNC). The aim of the paper is to search functional and semantic characteristics of the grammaticalized item čan-s (it_is_visible-PRS.S.3.SG). For this purpose there are used methods of lexical substitution, and elimination, to describe the functions of the item we used a language competency test. The goal of the paper is to describe the problem of the homonymy caused by grammaticalized item čan-s (it_is_visible-PRS.S.3.SG) in corpus linguistics and find the ways of removing the ambiguities. The paper suggests the rules created by analyses of collected data. Keywords: corpus linguistics; functional element; grammaticalization; homonymy; semantic analysis

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