Features
For core part-of-speech categories, see the universal POS tags. The features listed here distinguish additional lexical and grammatical properties of words, not covered by the POS tags.
Lexical features | Inflectional features | |
Nominal* | Verbal* | |
PronType | Gender | VerbForm |
NumType | Animacy | Mood |
+NumForm | Number | Tense |
+NumValue | Case | Aspect |
Poss | +PrepCase | Voice |
Reflex | +Variant | |
+NameType | Polarity | |
+AdpType | Degree | Person |
+ConjType | +Gender[psor] | |
Abbr | +Number[psor] | |
+Hyph | ||
Foreign | ||
+Style |
* The labels Nominal and Verbal are used as approximate categories only. There is no universal rule that a particular feature can only occur with verbs or nominals (although language-specific rules may define such constraints). Even the boundary between lexical and inflectional features is sometimes blurred: for example, gender is a lexical feature of nouns but an inflectional feature of adjectives or verbs.
Alphabetical listing
- Abbr: abbreviation
- AdpType: adposition type
- Animacy: animacy
- Aspect: aspect
- Case: case
- ConjType: conjunction type
- Degree: degree of comparison
- Foreign: is this a foreign word?
- Gender: gender
- Gender[psor]: possessor’s gender
- Hyph: hyphenated compound or part of it
- Mood: mood
- NameType: type of named entity
- NumForm: numeral form
- NumType: numeral type
- NumValue: numeric value
- Number: number
- Number[psor]: possessor’s number
- Person: person
- Polarity: whether the word can be or is negated
- Poss: possessive
- PrepCase: case form sensitive to prepositions
- PronType: pronominal type
- Reflex: reflexive
- Style: style or sublanguage to which this word form belongs
- Tense: tense
- Variant: alternative form of word
- VerbForm: form of verb or deverbative
- Voice: voice