Componential analyses of selected languages

Abstract

In the previous chapter, I introduced the KINSHIP system and showed its successful operation on data from Bulgarian. In this chapter, I conduct componential analysis of a dozen other languages of Indo-European and non-Indo-European origin. The basic goals of these exercises in machine componential analysis are both to provide a further empirical test of the capacity of the program and to present ‘adequate’ models of the examined languages, many of which have not been analysed previously.