Eckhard Bick - VISL

Words with graphical accents often lose these in inflected or derived forms.
They are therefore also alphabetised in the lexicon without accents, but
combinationally marked R (prohibiting non-derived selection of the word root). This
has also proved useful for correction of spelling, typing or ASCII errors in
computerised texts, where accents may have been omitted or changed by either the
author, typist or text transfer system.
Grammatical irregularities: This field contains information which has been
used to design the irregular inflexion form entries in the lexicon, but since stem
variations and irregular forms now all have their own entry, this field has been
inactivated and is not read into active program memory on start up. Hard copy
bilingual versions of the lexicon would, of course, make use of it.
Phonetics, too, are inactive in the PALMORF program. Any analytically
relevant information from the field has been expressed as combination rules.
Field 7 contains so-called diasystematic information, lexicographically termed
diachronic (e.g. archaisms or neologisms), diatopic (regional use), diatechnical (e.g.
scientific or technical field), diaevaluative (pejorative or euphemistic) and diaphatic
(formal, informal or slang). These diasystematic markers may be useful for
disambiguation at a future stage, by means of selection restrictions and the like.
Diaphatic speech level information, for instance, is being tentatively introduced:
'HV' (scientific "high level" term) can be used as an inward compatibility restriction
for affixes; for instance, a Latin-Greek suffix like '-ologia' might be reserved for
Latin-Greek word roots like 'cardio-' ("cardiology").
Synonyms are not used now, but might make selection restrictions
"transferable" at a future stage.
Syntactic word class is specified throughout the lexicon, the main syntactic
class being directly mapped from or incorporated into the primary (morphological)
word class marking in field 3. Further classes eligible for the word root in question,
are added here in field 9, as well as alternative semantic classes. Especially the
valency structures and prepositional complementation of verbal roots generate many
field 9 entries. Some examples are:
intransitive verb
monotransitive verb (with accusative object)
transitive verb with preposition phrase argument
(with the relevant preposition added as 'PRP^')
auxiliary verb
(with the non-finite verb form added, here '+Gerund')
Other word classes than verbs, too, can be marked for syntactic sub-class, for
example:
adjective that takes a prepositional complement headed by 'em'
Semantic subclassification is especially prominent for nouns:
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