All Monish verbs begin with a root. After the root comes an optional intensifier that at the lexical level is spelled

UUk

consisting of two underspecified high vowels and a k. Use the multicharactersymbol tag +Int at the lexical level for this optional intensifier morpheme.

Note that you cannot use the curly brackes, as in %+Pl: ed , to map +Int to a string of symbols like UUk; the problem is that multicharacter symbols cannot appear inside the curly-brace notation. Instead, use [ %+Int .x. [ %U %U k ] ] or [ %+Int : [ %U %U k ] ].

Q) Visualize the morphotactics of the words before writing a regular-expression grammar. Diagramming often helps.

Use comments in your source files to document the meaning of the tags. They may seem obvious now, but they wont be in a week. Comments in regular-expression files and in xfst scripts start with an exclamation mark and extend to the end of the line. ! This is a comment