A new digital resource has been developed for the Latvian language

The “Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models”, an innovative open access digital resource, has now officially available in the GitHub repository, see github.com/MorphLatLang/DLMDM, and is also registered in CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), see hdl.handle.net/20.500.12574/155. Thus, alongside existing corpora, dictionaries, etc. electronic and printed resources, the Latvian language has acquired a new digital resource with extensive possibilities for further theoretical and practical use. The “Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models” was developed at the Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies of the Faculty of Linguistics of the University of Latvia.

At the project's closing seminar and the database launch event, Andra Kalnača and Tatjana Pakalne introduced the audience to the Latvian language data contained in the database, their structure, processing, and theoretical and practical possibilities for use. Inta Urbanoviča, in turn, examined the principles of creating the "Dictionary of Latvian Paronyms" prepared during the project. The project participants and at the same time the authors of the new database shared their impressions of the creative, interesting, and diligent work over the course of three years.

We hope that the results of the project “The Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models” will be useful not only to the scientific community, but also to a wider audience, especially translators, IT specialists, lexicographers, teachers, and learners of Latvian in Latvia and abroad. The database will also provide a solid, dependable basis for all kinds of further data-based research on Latvian word formation, and help fill the still existing overall gap in digital resources dedicated to the Latvian language, thereby, hopefully, contributing to the development of new language learning materials, language-use manuals, etc.

Sincere thanks to Tatjana Pakalne, Ilze Lokmane, Daiki Horiguchi, Inta Urbanoviča, Kristīne Levāne-Petrova, Anita Butāne, Paula Ozola, Vanesa Balmane, Paula Miķelsone, Ieva Auziņa, Milan Hoplīček, Laura Paula Jansone, for excellent cooperation during the project and in the creation of the database!

For citations and references to the database, please use the following bibliography:

Kalnača, Andra, Pakalne, Tatjana (eds.). 2026. Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models (DLMDM). Rīga: University of Latvia. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12574/155