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--- user:zeman:interset:features [2014/06/16 15:48]
zeman New features split from subpos: nountype, adjtype, verbtype and conjtype.
+++ user:zeman:interset:features [2014/06/24 18:10]
zeman Numerals.
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 ===== pos =====
-Part of speech. Pronouns, determiners, predeterminers and articles are roofed by nouns and adjectives, and distinguished by values of other features.
+Part of speech. Pronouns, determiners, predeterminers and articles are roofed by nouns and adjectives, and distinguished by values of other features. The ''num'' value is intended for cardinal numbers (''numtype = card''). Other types of numerals are roofed by syntactically defined parts of speech (adjectives or adverbs) and distinguished by values of ''numtype''.
 | **Value** | **Description** |
 | noun | noun |
 | adj | adjective |
-| num | numeral, number	|
+| num | numeral (cardinal number) |
 | verb | verb |
 | adv | adverb |
-| prep | preposition, postposition or circumposition (together also: adposition) |
+| adp | adposition (preposition, postposition or circumposition) |
 | conj | conjunction |
 | part | particle |
 | int | interjection |
 | punc | punctuation or symbol |
-===== subpos =====
-Detailed part of speech. Subject to change - more value groups will probably be made separate features, e.g. ''verbtype''.
-| **Value** | **Main pos** | **Description** |
-| 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) |
-| ex | adv | existential "there" in English |
-| voc | prep | vocalized preposition (Czech "ve" as opposed to base form "v") |
-| post | prep | postposition (German "entlang" in "der Strasse entlang") |
-| circ | prep | circumposition (German "von ... an" in "von dieser Stelle an") |
-| 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") |
-| 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 =====
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 | mult | multiplier number ("five times") |
 | frac | fraction ("one fifth") |
-| gen | generic numeral ("twofold", Czech "jedny", "čtvery", "čtvero", "čtverý") |
+| gen | generic numeral ("twofold", Czech "jedny", "čtvero", "čtverý") |
+| sets | number of sets of things, or of pluralia tantum (Czech "čtvery") |
 | dist | distributive numeral (Hungarian "három-három" in "gyermekenként három-három ezer forinttal" = "three thousand forint per child") |
 | range | range of values, subtype of card ("two-five" = "two to five") |
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 | deg | adverb of quantity or degree ("how much") |
 | cau | adverb of cause ("why") |
+| mod | adverb of modal nature (Bulgarian "апропо") |
+| adadj | ad-adjective: special form in Finnish, derived from adjectives, used only to modify other adjectives (http://archives.conlang.info/pei/juenchen/phaelbhaduen.html) |
+| ex | existential "there" in English |
+===== adpostype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| voc | vocalized preposition (Czech "ve" as opposed to base form "v") |
+| post | postposition (German "entlang" in "der Strasse entlang") |
+| circ | circumposition (German "von ... an" in "von dieser Stelle an") |
+| preppron | preposition and pronoun in one word (Czech "proň" = "pro něj", "nač" = "na co") |
+| comprep | first part of compound preposition (Czech "nehledě na", "vzhledem k") |
 ===== conjtype =====
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 | sub | subordinating conjunction |
 | comp | comparing conjunction (German "wie", "als") |
+===== parttype =====
+| **Value** | **Description** |
+| mod | modal particle (Bulgarian "май" = "possibly", "нека" = "let"; Czech "ať", "kéž", "nechť") |
+| emp | particle of emphasis (Bulgarian "даже" = "even") |
+| res | particle of response ("yes", "no") |
+| inf | 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 | separated verb prefix (German "vor" in "stellen Sie sich vor"); analogical verbal particles in English? |
 ===== 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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