Chiron - Morphological Inflection

Here you can see the morphological inflection engine in action, inflecting the Latin word rosa.

In this sample I first open a small test XML-based Latin lexicon and browse to the desired word, rosa: Chiron is also used as a Lexicon editor, so you will see some of the editing panes for this word. As you can see, this word has a lexical constraint against rhotacism, which otherwise would be automatically applied by the morphological engine as the word fits its input conditions (this is infact an "exception" to the rule, just because it's a borrowing, as most 'Mediterranean' substrate words like this). I then ask Chiron to inflect the word, and during inflection a detailed log is generated in the bottom pane. Finally I browse the inflected forms in the left pane: the top part of this pane shows the final forms for each generated chain of transformations; the bottom part shows the stages for each inflected form, either reconstructed or attested. In this sample I expand the history of the form rosarum and I then examine the details of the transformation which leads from rosasom to rosarum (rhotacism is not blocked everywhere, but only in the radix, as specified by the lexical constraint cited above). As you can see, for each form the details of the originating rule are given and its structure is fully specified (here you can see 3 morphemes: radix, suffix and ending, shown when hovering the mouse on the form).