Tables of attribute-values

  The common Multext-East tables of attribute values are given for all categories above, and have a rigid structure, which makes them suitable for automatically verifying the conformance of a particular morphosyntactic description with the tables, or for expanding a morphosyntactic description into its more verbose form.

At the beginning of each category the number of attributes introduced by the category is given. This is followed by a string summarizing the valid attributes of the category. The features constituting the minimal core, in common with Multext (and Eagles) are graphically contained between strings of stars (*).

This information is followed by the table proper. The table has the following columns:

1.

Position gives the position of the attribute in the string of the morphosyntactic description;

2.

Attribute gives the name of the attribute;

3.

Value gives the name and one-letter code of the attribute-value;

4.

En, Ro, Sl, Cs, Bg, Et, Hu i.e. a column for each of the Multext-East languages. For easier comparison between them they have been grouped by language family: first English as the 'hub' language, then Romance (Romanian), followed by Slavic (Slovene, Czech, Bulgarian), and finaly Finno-Ungric (Estonian, Hungarian).

The language columns define (by marking with 'x'), in the first line, whether the category is used by the language, and in subsequent lines, which attribute-values a particular language uses.