NounType: NounType
In Irish, noun forms fall into certain groups or declentions (see Form). These nouns follow patterns of inflection depending on gender, number and case. The noun type feature affects the form of modifying adjectives, and so is a feature of both parts of speech.
Strong : strong plurals
The form of a strong plural remains unchanged regardless of grammatical case, i.e. it does not inflect.
Examples
- bláthanna “flowers” (nominative, accusative, genitive)
- oibreacha “works” (nominative, accusative, genitive)
- cótaí “coats” (nominative, accusative, genitive)
Weak : weak plurals
Unlike the strong plural, a weak plural noun is different in the nominative, accusative and genitive cases.
Examples
- focail “words” (nominative, accusative)
- focal “words” (genitive)
- Aontais “Unions” (nominative, accusative)
- Aontas “Unions” (genitive)
Adjectives in Irish can have endings that are slender or not slender (broad). Depending on how the preceding noun ends, the form of the adjective can change.
NotSlender : broad consonants
A final consonant is termed broad if the preceding vowel is broad (a, á, o, ó, u, ú). The feature ‘NotSlender’ applies to adjectives qualifying a plural noun that ends in a broad consonant or a vowel.
Examples
- dathanna príomhúla
- nótaí praiticiúla
Slender : slender consonants
A final consonant is termed slender if the preceding vowel is slender (e, é, i, í). The feature ‘Slender’ applies to adjectives qualifying a plural noun that ends in a slender consonant.
Examples
- na heagrais dheonacha
- thuaithe cháilitheacha
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This feature is language-specific.
It occurs with 4 different values: NotSlender, Slender, Strong, Weak.
162 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of NounType.
134 types (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of NounType.
125 lemmas (5%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of NounType.
The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: ga-pos/NOUN (118; 1% instances), ga-pos/ADJ (43; 0% instances), ga-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).
NOUN
118 ga-pos/NOUN tokens (3% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of NounType.
The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and NounType co-occurred: Number=Plur (118; 100%), Case=Gen (118; 100%), VerbForm=EMPTY (118; 100%), Form=EMPTY (98; 83%), Definite=EMPTY (91; 77%), Gender=Masc (87; 74%).
NOUN tokens may have the following values of NounType:
Strong(81; 69% of non-emptyNounType): oibreacha, ban, n-oibreacha, ceoltóirí, daoine, gCailíní, ndaoine, nduillí, orduithe, rudaíWeak(37; 31% of non-emptyNounType): Fiontar, Náisiún, breiseán, súl, Bhéal, Foras, Roinne, Sceach, airgead, arm
NounType seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 100% lemmas (92) occur only with one value of NounType.
ADJ
43 ga-pos/ADJ tokens (6% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of NounType.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and NounType co-occurred: VerbForm=EMPTY (43; 100%), Degree=EMPTY (43; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (43; 100%), Number=Plur (43; 100%), Case=NomAcc (35; 81%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of NounType:
NotSlender(26; 60% of non-emptyNounType): beaga, príomhúla, aisteacha, crúcacha, deasa, deonacha, difriúla, fadbhreathnaitheacha, fiara, ingearachaSlender(9; 21% of non-emptyNounType): aisteacha, bhradacha, chuí, ghlasa, mhéadracha, orgánacha, phríomhúla, éagsúla, ógaStrong(7; 16% of non-emptyNounType): éagsúla, Ultacha, beaga, móra, núicléacha, speisialtaWeak(1; 2% of non-emptyNounType): plaisteach
| Paradigm mór | NotSlender | Strong |
|---|---|---|
| Case=Gen | móra | |
| Case=NomAcc | móra |
PROPN
1 ga-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of NounType.
The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and NounType co-occurred: Case=Gen (1; 100%), Number=Plur (1; 100%), Gender=Masc (1; 100%).
PROPN tokens may have the following values of NounType:
Weak(1; 100% of non-emptyNounType): Éireannach
Relations with Agreement in NounType
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in NounType:
ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (1; 100%).
NounType in other languages: [ga]