Eckhard Bick - VISL

the present participle by derivational rules, permitting both a noun and an adjective
reading. The past participle is morphologically marked ('-ido/-ado') and could thus
be treated as an inflexional category of the verb, but outside the verb chain it
assumes an adjective's word form categories (number and gender), and the analyser
chooses in this case to "fuse" the PCP/ADJ ambiguity into a combination of a
secondary and a primary tag: V PCP 54 .
PALAVRAS' 14 word class tags are the following:
WORD CLASS TAGS
N Nouns
PROP Proper names
SPEC Specifiers (defined as non-inflecting pronouns, that can't be used as
prenominals): e.g. indefinite pronouns, nominal quantifiers, nominal
relatives
DET Determiners (defined as inflecting pronouns, that can be used as
prenominals): e.g. articles, attributive quantifiers
PERS Personal pronouns (defined as person-inflecting pronouns)
ADJ Adjectives (including ordinals, excluding participles which are tagged V
PCP)
ADV Adverbs (both 'primary' adverbs and derived adverbs ending in 'mente')
V Verbs (full verbs, auxiliaries)
NUM Numerals (cardinals)
PRP Prepositions
KS Subordinating conjunctions
KC Co-ordinating conjunctions
IN Interjections
EC Morphologically "visible" affixes (elemento composto, category not used
on higher levels of analysis), e.g."anti-gás"
For (prepositional) polylexicals and incorporates 55 also the following higher level
form categories may be used in the lexicon:
54 The pure verbal reading is thus marked by the absence of the tag as well as by the syntactic tag @#ICL. One
might argue that a M S tagging for masculine singular (the default) does not make sense in the pure verbal case of active
participle after the auxiliary'ter', where the participle only appears in this form, and is part of a tense construction. From
this point of view, a NIL tag would be preferable. The distinction can be made by the parser by using syntactic
information that is made available by the syntactic module at the next level. This kind of level-interaction is a positive
side-effect of progressive level parsing. However, since filtering PCP M S @#ICL-AUX< into PCP NIL @#ICL-AUX<
after 'ter' doesn't increase the verb chain tags' information content, maybe this transformation is best regarded as a
formality that can be left to the parser's user interface and its preference menu. An alternative approach for making the
distinction would be a context dependent disambiguation of two secondary tags, and , for verbal
participles.
55 Here defined as words or polylexicals that appear in incorporating verb constructions (described in 5.3.1), like: fazer
boca-de-siri sobre ('keep s.th. secret'), ser batata ('to be o.k.'), dar bola a ('to court').
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