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--- user:zeman:interset:features [2016/05/02 11:00]
zeman
+++ user:zeman:interset:features [2017/01/16 13:19]
zeman Politeness.
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 | neut | neuter |
-===== animateness =====
+===== animacy =====
 | **Value** | **Description** |
 | anim | animate |
-| nhum | animate but not human |
 | inan | inanimate |
+| hum  | human |
+| nhum | not human |
-The distinction of human vs. nonhuman occurs in Polish grammar, e.g. the word "który" (which):
+Some languages distinguish only animate vs. inanimate, where the animate category includes humans, animals, fictious characters and sometimes also personified things. Some languages distinguish human vs. nonhuman, i.e. animals fall into the latter category. Some languages, e.g. Polish (see below) have a three-value system: human vs. animate non-human vs. inanimate. In that case we use the ''nhum'' value to denote the non-human animates, i.e. it excludes inanimates (while in hum-nhum systems, the ''nhum'' label includes inanimates).
+The Polish word "który" (which) is an example of three-value animacy:
 | gender | sg-nom | sg-gen | sg-dat | sg-acc | sg-ins | sg-loc | pl-nom | pl-gen | pl-dat | pl-acc | pl-ins | pl-loc |
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 | abs | absolute superlative |
 | dim | diminutive (used for nouns e.g. in Dutch: "stoeltje", "huisje", "nippertje") |
+| aug | augmentative (for nouns, opposite of diminutive; both dim and aug are used in the Freeling tagset of Portuguese |
 ===== person =====
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 | 3 | third (his, her, its, their) |
-===== politeness =====
+===== polite =====
 | **Value** | **Description** |
-| inf | informal (Czech "ty/vy", German "du/ihr", Spanish "tú/vosotros") |
+| infm | informal (Czech "ty/vy", German "du/ihr", Spanish "tú/vosotros") |
-| pol | polite (Czech "vy", German "Sie", Spanish "usted") |
+| form | formal / polite (Czech "vy", German "Sie", Spanish "usted") |
+| elev | elevated status of referent/addressee, subtype of ''form'' |
+| humb | humbled status of speaker, subtype of ''form'' |
 ===== (abs|erg|dat)(person|number|politeness|gender) =====

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