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UD for Azerbaijani

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

• In general, words are delimited by whitespace characters.
• Punctuation marks tokenized as separate tokens (words).
  • Hyphenated fixed and compounds are kept as three tokens: tez-tez, sil-süpür.

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Morphology

Tags

• Azerbaijani uses 14 universal POS categories, including:
• ADJ yaxçı, böyük, ect.
• ADP qədər, için, -ki, etc.
• ADV daha, də, fәqәt, etc.
• AUX i, dəyil, etc.
• CCONJ amma, və, ya, etc.
• DET o, bir, bu, etc.
• INTJ Pəs.
• NOUN pәncәrә, maşɪn, etc.
• NUM bir, neçә, beş, etc.
• PRON o, mən, etc.
• PROPN Deniz, Sam, etc.
• PUNCT -, ?, ., etc.
• SCONJ ki, əyər, etc.
• VERB getdi, fikr eliyәm, yudurtdu, yazdığını, etc.

Features

• Azerbaijani nouns are typically suffixed. However, a small number of prefixes are borrowed mostly from Persian.
• Azerbaijani, like all other Turkic languages, is devoid of grammatical gender. But there are ways to express gender lexically, if required.
• In Number marking of nouns, there are two values: Singular and Plural; Singular forms are unmarked.
• There are seven Cases in Azerbaijani: NOM, GEN, DAT, ACC, COM/INS, LOC, ABL. The NOM case does not take a suffix.
• Yes-no questions can be constructed in two ways: (i) by using interrogative intonation contour, and (ii) by adding the interrogative particle aya.

Inflectional Structure Representation

• Noun + (Plural marker) + (Possessive pronoun) + (Case marker)
• Adjective + (Comparative/Superlative degree marker)
• Verb stem + (Reciprocal marker) + (Causative marker) + (Voice marker) + (Reflexive marker) + (Negation marker) + (Mood marker) + {(Imperfective Aspect marker) + (Perfective Aspect marker)} + (Tense marker) + Person and Number marker.

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Syntax

Core Arguments, Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts

• Nominal subject nsubj is a noun phrase in the nominative case, without adposition.
  • A subordinate clause may serve as the subject and is labeled csubj.
• Object obj is a noun phrase without adposition and typically in the accusative case.
• Oblique obl is a non-core nominal (noun, pronoun, noun phrase) argument or adjunct.

Relations Overview

• The following relation subtypes are used in Azerbaijani:
  • compound:redup for reduplicated compounds
  • csubj:outer for outer clause clausal subject
  • nsubj:outer outer clause nominal subject
  • advmod:emph for emphasizing word, intensifier
  • compound:lvc` for light-verb constructions
• The following relation types are not used in Azerbaijani at all: dep, dislocated, expl, goeswith, iobj, list, reparandum

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Treebanks

There is 1 Azerbaijani UD treebank:

• Azerbaijani-TueCL

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