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--- user:zeman:interset:features [2014/03/01 11:07]
zeman New feature: morphpos.
+++ user:zeman:interset:features [2014/06/16 16:17]
zeman Features tense and subtense merged.
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 | **Value** | **Main pos** | **Description** |
-| prop | noun | proper noun ("George", "Bush", "Paris") |
-| class | noun | classifier (measure word) between number and counted noun, e.g. Chinese "個 gè" |
-| pdt | adj | predeterminer (adjectival word that can stand before an article, such as "all" in "all the flowers") |
-| det | adj | determiner (function word modifying a noun phrase: English "this", "that"); regarded indefinite/demonstrative pronoun in some tagsets; includes articles (see below) in some tagsets |
-| art | adj | article, i.e. determiner bearing only the feature of definiteness or indefinitess and nothing more (English "a", "an", "the", German "der", "die", "das", Portuguese "um", "uma", "o", "a", "os", "as") |
-| aux | verb, part | auxiliary verb used to construct complex verb forms (Czech "být", English "have", "will") |
-| cop | verb | copula verb (Czech "být") |
-| mod | verb | modal verb (German "dürfen", "können", "mögen", "müssen", "sollen", "wollen", "wissen"; Czech "muset", "mít", "moci", "smět", "umět", "chtít"; English "must", "can", "shall"); note that adverbs and particles have their own ''mod'' subpos |
-| verbconj | verb | finite verb with the enclitic "-ť" (Czech "neboť" = "because") |
 | mod | adv, part | modal particle (Bulgarian "май" = "possibly", "нека" = "let"; Czech "ať", "kéž", "nechť") or adverb of modal nature (Bulgarian "апропо"); note that verbs have their own ''mod'' subpos |
 | adadj | adv | ad-adjective: special form in Finnish, derived from adjectives, used only to modify other adjectives (http://archives.conlang.info/pei/juenchen/phaelbhaduen.html) |
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 | preppron | prep | preposition and pronoun in one word (Czech "proň" = "pro něj", "nač" = "na co") |
 | comprep | prep | first part of compound preposition (Czech "nehledě na", "vzhledem k") |
-| coor | conj | coordinating conjunction |
-| sub | conj | subordinating conjunction |
-| comp | conj | comparing conjunction (German "wie", "als") |
 | emp | part | particle of emphasis (Bulgarian "даже" = "even") |
 | res | part | particle of response ("yes", "no") |
 | inf | part | infinitive marker (English "to", German "zu", Danish "at", Swedish "att"). Sometimes tagged as particle, sometimes as conjunction, sometimes has its own part of speech. |
 | vbp | part | separated verb prefix (German "vor" in "stellen Sie sich vor"); analogical verbal particles in English? |
+===== nountype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| com | common noun ("man", "dog", "house", "idea") |
+| prop | proper noun ("George", "Bush", "Paris") |
+| class | classifier (measure word) between number and counted noun, e.g. Chinese "個 gè" |
+===== adjtype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| pdt | predeterminer (adjectival word that can stand before an article, such as "all" in "all the flowers") |
+| det | determiner (function word modifying a noun phrase: English "this", "that"); regarded indefinite/demonstrative pronoun in some tagsets; includes articles (see below) in some tagsets |
+| art | article, i.e. determiner bearing only the feature of definiteness or indefinitess and nothing more (English "a", "an", "the", German "der", "die", "das", Portuguese "um", "uma", "o", "a", "os", "as") |
 ===== prontype =====
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 | **Value** | **Description** |
-| | Empty value means that this is not a pronoun but a real noun, adjective, adverb etc. This will be more useful once we completely remove the pronoun part of speech, distribute the pronouns to other syntactically similar parts of speech and set their prontype. |
+| | Empty value means that this is not a pronoun but a real noun, adjective, adverb etc. |
+| prn | The word is pronominal but we do not know the exact type. |
 | prs | Personal or possessive pronoun. Possessives are recognizable by the value of their poss feature. |
 | rcp | Reciprocal pronoun (German "einander", Danish "hinanden"). Similar to personal pronouns but occurs as special case in object position. |
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 Řada výskytů číslovek nemá (ani v té verzi 1) vyznačenu ani jednu hodnotu, např.: o kilku artykułach, przedstawił trzy swoje dzieła, wystąpił z sześcioma prelekcjami, z których trzy zostały...
+===== verbtype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| aux | auxiliary verb used to construct complex verb forms (Czech "být", English "have", "will") |
+| cop | copula verb (Czech "být") |
+| mod | modal verb (German "dürfen", "können", "mögen", "müssen", "sollen", "wollen", "wissen"; Czech "muset", "mít", "moci", "smět", "umět", "chtít"; English "must", "can", "shall"); note that adverbs and particles have their own ''mod'' subpos |
+| verbconj | finite verb with the enclitic "-ť" (Czech "neboť" = "because") |
 ===== advtype =====
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 | deg | adverb of quantity or degree ("how much") |
 | cau | adverb of cause ("why") |
+===== conjtype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| coor | coordinating conjunction |
+| sub | subordinating conjunction |
+| comp | comparing conjunction (German "wie", "als") |
 ===== punctype =====
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 ===== tense =====
+Note: In Interset 1.0, there were two separate features, ''tense'' and ''subtense'', the latter consisting of the values ''aor'', ''imp'', ''nar'' and ''pqp''. We used to avoid hierarchical feature values (e.g. ''aor''ist implies ''past''; but many languages will only know ''past'' and their drivers will not check for the ''aor'' value). Hierarchical ordering of feature values is now normal and there are algorithms to exploit the hierarchy when a feature has to be replaced by another value, thus these two features have been merged.
+Note that, unfortunately, imperfect tense is not always the same as past tense + imperfective aspect. For instance, in Bulgarian, there is lexical aspect, inherent in verb meaning, and grammatical aspect, which does not necessarily always match the lexical one. In main clauses, imperfective verbs can have imperfect tense and perfective verbs have perfect tense. However, both rules can be violated in embedded clauses. Aorist is aspect-neutral and can freely appear with both imperfective and perfective verbs.
 | **Value** | **Description** |
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 | pres | present |
 | fut | future |
-===== subtense =====
-Finer classification of tenses, may not be available in all languages. (And in many languages, these tenses are built using auxiliaries, rather than special morphemes.) Having these separated from the main past-present-future distinction allows that drivers need not check for aorist/imperfect, if they know just one past tense.
-Note that, unfortunately, imperfect tense is not always the same as past tense + imperfective aspect. For instance, in Bulgarian, there is lexical aspect, inherent in verb meaning, and grammatical aspect, which does not necessarily always match the lexical one. In main clauses, imperfective verbs can have imperfect tense and perfective verbs have perfect tense. However, both rules can be violated in embedded clauses. Aorist is aspect-neutral and can freely appear with both imperfective and perfective verbs.
-| **Value** | **Description** |
 | aor | aorist |
 | imp | imperfect |

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