Eckhard Bick - VISL

the function of the subclause is conformative 169 . It is not at all easy to assign a word
class to these particles, and traditional grammars often use as many word classes as
there are syntactic functions. Typically, when heading an AS (2n), they would be called
a preposition, when heading a FS (2o), they would be termed conjunctions. I find it
most logical, in analogy with the handling of onde (place) and quando (time) to add
como (manner) and others, and then map different syntactic functions onto one word
class, that of relative adverbial. However, for reasons of both notational flexibility and
semantic-translational 170 differentiation, I disambiguate the secondary tags
("prepositional") and ("conjunctional") for these words, so the tag chain can easily
be filtered into the traditional word classes of preposition and conjunction, respectively,
while in the first case () also filtering clause function labels (@#) into group
function labels (@) and replacing the @AS< tag by @P< 171 .
(2n)
Segundo [segundo] ADV @COM @#AS-ADVL> ‘according to’
sua [seu] DET F S @>N ‘his’
estimativa [estimativa] N F S @AS< ‘estimate’
$,
a [a] DET F S @>N ‘the’
política [política] N F S @SUBJ> 'policy'
seletiva [seletivo] ADJ F S @N< ‘selective’
de [de] PRP @N< ‘of’
desenvolvimento [desenvolvimento] N M S @P< ‘development’
será [ser] V FUT 3S IND VFIN @FMV ‘will be’
capaz [capaz] ADJ M/F S @N ‘the’
produto [produto] N M S @