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user:zeman:interset:features [2014/11/18 16:03]
zeman 		user:zeman:interset:features [2015/02/10 11:31]
zeman New feature: position.
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 | cop | copula verb (Czech "být") | | 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 | | 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 |
 +| light | light (support) verb in verbo-nominal constructions (Japanese "suru") |
 | verbconj | finite verb with the enclitic "-ť" (Czech "neboť" = "because") | | verbconj | finite verb with the enclitic "-ť" (Czech "neboť" = "because") |
  
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 | sup | superlative, third degree | | sup | superlative, third degree |
 | abs | absolute superlative | | abs | absolute superlative |
 +| dim | diminutive (used for nouns e.g. in Dutch: "stoeltje", "huisje", "nippertje") |
  
 ===== person ===== ===== person =====
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 In quite a few languages, finite verb forms agree in person and number with the subject. In Basque, a subset of verbs agree with up to three arguments: one in the absolutive case, one in ergative and one in dative. To distinguish the different values of person, number (and politeness and rarely even gender), there are special features for each of the three arguments. Their names contain the three-letter code of the case of the argument: ''absperson'', ''absnumber'', ''ergperson'', ''ergnumber'' etc. The value range is identical to the base features. That is, ''absnumber'', ''ergnumber'' and ''datnumber'' may get the same values as ''number''. In quite a few languages, finite verb forms agree in person and number with the subject. In Basque, a subset of verbs agree with up to three arguments: one in the absolutive case, one in ergative and one in dative. To distinguish the different values of person, number (and politeness and rarely even gender), there are special features for each of the three arguments. Their names contain the three-letter code of the case of the argument: ''absperson'', ''absnumber'', ''ergperson'', ''ergnumber'' etc. The value range is identical to the base features. That is, ''absnumber'', ''ergnumber'' and ''datnumber'' may get the same values as ''number''.
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 +===== position =====
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 +Adjectives in some languages (e.g. in Dutch) have different forms depending on how and where they are used. The same may hold for determiners (including possessive pronouns), quantifiers, numerals and participles.
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 +Note: This feature has been introduced because of the ''nl::cgn'' tagset of Dutch. Similar features were previously observed in other tagsets (e.g. ''fa::conll'') and they could be now re-implemented using this new Interset feature. We may also consider using this feature to distinguish the nominal (short) and pronominal (long) forms of Czech adjectives, the adverbial forms of German adjectives etc. (these are currently distinguished using the ''variant'' feature).
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 +| **Value** | **Description** |
 +| prenom | modifies a following noun; Dutch "vrij" in "een vrije vogel" or "mooi" in "een mooi huis" |
 +| postnom | modifies a preceding noun; Dutch "bevaarbaar" in "rivieren bevaarbaar in de winter" |
 +| nom | adjective constituting a noun phrase, inflected as a noun; Dutch "rijken" in "de rijken" = "the rich" |
 +| free | adjective used independently, i.e. not as a noun and not modifying a noun; a predicative or adverbial usage; Dutch "vrij" in "de vogels vrij laten rondvliegen" |
  
 ===== subcat ===== ===== subcat =====
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 | part | participle (present ("doing"), past ("done"), passive (Czech "udělán" distinguished from adjective "udělaný" by variant=short)), gerundive | | part | participle (present ("doing"), past ("done"), passive (Czech "udělán" distinguished from adjective "udělaný" by variant=short)), gerundive |
 | trans | transgressive, adverbial participle (modifies other verbs, behaves like adverb; Czech present "dělaje", past "udělav") | | trans | transgressive, adverbial participle (modifies other verbs, behaves like adverb; Czech present "dělaje", past "udělav") |
-| ger | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerund|gerund]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_noun|verbal noun]]) |+| ger | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerund|gerund]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_noun|verbal noun]]). Latin //gerundium:// "amare" => genitive "amandi", dative "amando", accusative "(ad) amandum", ablative "amando". | 
 +| gdv | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerundive|gerundive]] ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributive_verb|verbal adjective]]). Latin //gerundivum:// "portāre" => "portandus, portanda, portandum" |
  
 ===== mood ===== ===== mood =====
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 | **Value** | **Description** | | **Value** | **Description** |
 | act | active | | act | active |
 +| mid | middle (Ancient Greek; neither active nor passive but somewhere inbetween; they have also mediopassive, which can be expressed as "voice=mid<nowiki>|</nowiki>pass") |
 | pass | passive | | pass | passive |
 | rcp | reciprocal (Turkish "karıştı", "tutuştular") | | rcp | reciprocal (Turkish "karıştı", "tutuştular") |

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