The language application parts present the specifications category by category and
are structured as follows:
- a chapter describing the features and values pertinent to a given category in the
form of tables with examples from the language in question; these tables have been
mostly automatically generated from the common tables. The language specific tables,
however, do often have significant additional information, e.g. examples or localisation
of names.
- a chapter providing the allowed combinations of values for the particular language,
which is, in some cases, supplemented by c) a list of examples from the lexicon or
corpus. Two different strategies of displaying combinations have been followed:
- all the admitted combinations are provided together with an example. This has the disadvantage of
producing big lists, given the high number of features and values to combine together,
but the advantage of providing the only legal combinations with the relevant constraints
in the application of some features/values in presence of other features or values
or combination of them (see e.g. Gender in Personal Pronouns).
- a mathematical expression (essentially a regular expression) describing the combinations
is provided, which can subsequently used to generate all combinations, possibly including some which are not valid.