For example, if we decided to implement the lexical preference for passive suffixation in -ina rather than -ana as a feature, the lexical entry for fantatra in the lexicon would be accompanied by a featureˆFpassi on the surface level as bellow.
as with any finite-state morphological transducer, our Malagasy morphological analyzer is bidirectional: it can be used in grammatical analysis to produce morphologically analyzed input to a parser, or in generation to produce a surface form from a specification of lexical properties (Beesley and Karttunen, 2003).