MULTEXT-East Morphosyntactic Specifications, Version 4

2.4.2. Notes

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Class:

distinguishes subtypes of Numerals in Czech which have a distinct syntactic distributions: e.g. subclasses for 1, 2, 3&4, etc. are distinguished.

Clitic_s:

the 'yes' value of the Clitic_s attribute denotes Czech pronouns having the clitic morpheme 's' appended as a suffix.

Definiteness:

corresponds to the definite and indefinite article in English, which is expressed in the Slavic languages by suffixes. For Bulgarian singular masculine there are two forms: full article and short article (full is used when a sing.masc. form is the syntactic subject of the clause, otherwise short article is used). The distinction full vs. short is not made for feminine, neuter and plural forms. Definiteness is also used in Romanian.

Form:

used to distinguish different forms of numerals (Roman, digit, 'letter') and in Bulgarian also for the semantic distinction between numerals that refer to male persons (but not children) or groups of male+female.

Formation:

refers to the graphical components: simple, i.e. consisting of one word; compound, i.e. consisting of more than one word.

Modific_Type:

refers to the prenominal or postnominal positions of Determiners which distinguish different forms in Romanian.

Negative:

the value 'yes' encodes negative verbal word-forms in Slavic languages and Estonian.

Owned_Number:

in the Hungarian system, different word-forms are distinguished for nominals on the basis of so called 'anaphoric possessive' number, i.e. the number of the thing(s) possessed by the nominal in question.

Owner_Gender:

used to encode the Gender of the possessor in Pronouns and (in Romanian) Determiners.

Owner_Number:

used to specify the possessor number in Pronouns, as well as (in Romanian) in Determiners, and (in Hungarian) in Adjectives and Nouns.

Owner_Person:

used to specify the possessor person in in Hungarian in Adjectives and Nouns.

Pronoun_Form:

used to encode weak and strong pronouns in Romanian.

Referent_Type:

used to distinguish reflexive personal from reflexive possessive pronouns in the Slavic languages. In Bulgarian, it also describes a subdivision on the basis of semantic features which have effect on the morpho-syntactic paradigm, e.g. quantitative: the pronoun refers to quantity, etc.

Sub_Type:

used in Romanian to distinguish negative from positive Conjunctions.

Syntactic_Type:

used to distinguish the nominal and adjectival function of Pronouns in Croatian, Resian and Czech. Furthermore, in Slovene and Serbian, the adverbial function of certain Pronouns is distinguished. Also used in Abbreviations to signal the Part of Speech of the abbreviation; currently used only by Romanian and Estonian.

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