Transformations and Paraphrases for Quechua Sentiment Predicates

In this paper, I present a study on the automatic generation of paraphrases of Quechua sentiment predicates. Using the transformationalNooJ engine, I first build the rules corresponding to the elementary transformations for the Quechua language. I then describe in detail grammars performing pronominalization, reduction, and permutation of the arguments, passivation, and some others. Then, I show how they can combine with one another, respecting certain syntactic constraints, in order to obtain complex transformations. I present the electronic dictionary of Quechua sentiment verbs that I have built. Finally, I construct a particular subclass of transformations that will automatically generate paraphrases of a Quechua sentiment predicate.