Eckhard Bick - VISL

PP prepositional group
de=aluguel PP
ao=mesmo=tempo PP
WORDFORM and LEXEME
(..') CATEGORIES
graph. def. characteristics:
word-initial PRP+ '='
(preporcessor)
SYNTACTIC SUB-CLASSES
(secondary tags)
complex adverb
complex adjective
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TEXT EXAMPLES
com=a=mão=do=gato
de=alto=coturno
The PP word class allows both "adjectival" and "adverbial" usage, the subclasses
or only indicate what's more likely. PPs that only appear as either one
or the other, are assigned a real ADJ or ADV tag, like in das=arábias ADJ ('expert')
and de=novo ADV ('again') .
Classes N, ADJ, irregular PCP, and V have root- or base-form entries in the lexicon,
with only irregular inflexion forms being listed separately. For the SPEC, DET and
PERS classes all individual word forms appear in the lexicon with their inflexion
tags. Numerals are treated according to their subclasses NUM (cardinals,
individual word form entries), ADJ (ordinals, base form entries) and
N (fractions and multiples, base form entries). While numerals only in part
mimic other word classes, the abbreviations class () is completely
"parasitic", and for this reason it isn't treated as a word class at all, but tagged as a
morphological feature along with other such tags (like for capitalisation,
and for left and right quotes).
q.v. V IMP 2S
c.-tes ADJ M/F P
fig. N F' S
E.U.A PROPR M' P'
ADV, PRP, IN and the K classes have no inflexion forms, and words from these
classes get one lexicon entry per word (some words, though, like 'como', can belong
to several classes).
In a way, even punctuation marks might be called a morphological (word?)
class. Unlike words, punctuation marks are pre-tagged - by prefixing the '$' sign (at
the preprocessor level):
$. full stop
$, comma
$- hyphen