MULTEXT-East Morphosyntactic Specifications, Version 4

3.1.10. English Numeral

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Table 37. English Specification for Numeral
P Attribute (en) Value (en) Code (en)
0 CATEGORY Numeral M
1 Type cardinal c
ordinal o
3.1.10.1. Notes

These have not been subsumed under adjectives, pronouns, determiners, etc. because the internal structure of complex numerals is idiosyncratic.

3.1.10.2. MSD Index

This index gives the complete list of morphosyntactic descriptions (MSDs) and their features. In the table below, the first column gives the MSD, the second its expansion into a feature-structure, the third gives the number of entries in the lexicon (71,784 entries), and the fourth gives some examples as word-form/lemma. The list was extracted form the English MULTEXT-East lexicon.

Table 38. MSDs (2)
MSD (en) Features (en) Lexical entries Examples of usage
Mc Numeral Type=cardinal 40 zero, two, twenty, twenty-seven, twenty-five, twelve, trillion
Mo Numeral Type=ordinal 33 twentieth, twelfth, trillionth, thousandth, thirtieth, thirteenth

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