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PartType: PartType

Irish makes use of a broad range of particles. Many of these particles have the same form but perform different functions.

Ad : adverbial

This particle is used with an adverb to create an adverbial phrase. It’s most frequent form is go.

Examples

• go minic “often”
• go fóill “yet”
• go dona “badly”

Cmpl : complementizer

These complementizers are used to introduce a clausal complement. See ccomp.

Examples

• go raibh fhios acu “that they know”
• nach bhfeiceann siad “that they don’t see”
• Is beag nár thit an píosa

Comp : comparative

The comparative particle is used for introducing a comparative adjective (see Degree).

Examples

• níos mó “bigger”
• níos déine “more intense”

Cop : copular

The copular particle introduces a copular construction. There is only one instance of this particle in the treebank currently.

Example

• cén fhealsúnacht a ba bhun leis an tuairim “which philosophy that the opinion was based on”

Deg : degree

The degree particle is used to give a superlative description.

• dá laghad “the least” (at all)
• ba ea a dhéine a bhí sé á breathnú “with how much more handsome he was becoming”

Inf : infinitive

The particle a is used with a verb stem to form the infinitive in Irish. The verb form is lenited.

Examples

• a cheannach “to buy”
• a thabhairt “to give”
• a dhénamh “to do”

Num : numeral

The particle used for counting in Irish is a. Most forms stay the same, but those numbers beginning with a vowel such as aon (“one”), or ocht (“eight”) are prefixed by h-.

Examples

• a haon “one”
• a dó “two”
• a seacht “seven”
• a hocht “eight”

Pat : patronym

This particle is used in last names to mean “son of” or “daughter of”. The masculine forms are Ó and Mac, while the feminine forms include Ní, Nic, Uí and Mhic. Often the anglicised version will use “O” or “Mac” regardless of gender.

Examples

• Mac Craith
• Teaghlach Uí Ghallchóir
• Liz O’ Donnell
• Aire de Valera

Vb : verbal

Verbal particles include the positive particles a, gur and the negative particle ní. These particles can be used for introducing relative or adverbial clauses, clefts, or for negating the verb.

Examples

• is ann a bhí cónaí ar Cholm “it was there that Colm lived”
• gur thit na caighdeáin “that the standards had fallen”
• ní bheidh sé “he will not”

Voc : vocative

The vocative particle is a, and is used to directly address someone. In this circumstance, it triggers lenition in the following noun. See Case

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

This feature is language-specific. It occurs with 10 different values: Ad, Cmpl, Comp, Cop, Deg, Inf, Num, Pat, Vb, Voc.

860 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of PartType. 39 types (1%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PartType. 25 lemmas (1%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PartType. The feature is used with 5 part-of-speech tags: ga-pos/PART (841; 6% instances), ga-pos/NOUN (14; 0% instances), ga-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), ga-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), ga-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

PART

841 ga-pos/PART tokens (97% of all PART tokens) have a non-empty value of PartType.

The most frequent other feature values with which PART and PartType co-occurred: Polarity=EMPTY (743; 88%), PronType=EMPTY (496; 59%).

PART tokens may have the following values of PartType:

• Ad (63; 7% of non-empty PartType): go
• Cmpl (105; 12% of non-empty PartType): go, nach, nár, ná
• Comp (1; 0% of non-empty PartType): ní
• Cop (1; 0% of non-empty PartType): a
• Deg (1; 0% of non-empty PartType): a
• Inf (160; 19% of non-empty PartType): a, do, Trasna
• Num (4; 0% of non-empty PartType): a
• Pat (32; 4% of non-empty PartType): Ó, de, Mac, Nic, Ní, Uí
• Vb (464; 55% of non-empty PartType): a, d’, ní, nach, gur, do, ar, níor, ná, nár
• Voc (10; 1% of non-empty PartType): a

Paradigm a	Cop	Deg	Inf	Num	Vb	Voc
_		a	a	a		a
Form=Ecl|PronType=Rel					n-a
PronType=Rel	a				a, n-a

NOUN

14 ga-pos/NOUN tokens (0% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of PartType.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and PartType co-occurred: Case=EMPTY (14; 100%), Number=Sing (14; 100%), Form=EMPTY (14; 100%), VerbForm=EMPTY (14; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (14; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (14; 100%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of PartType:

• Comp (14; 100% of non-empty PartType): níos

ADJ

3 ga-pos/ADJ tokens (0% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of PartType.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and PartType co-occurred: VerbForm=EMPTY (3; 100%), Degree=EMPTY (3; 100%), Case=EMPTY (3; 100%), Number=Sing (2; 67%), Gender=Masc (2; 67%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of PartType:

• Voc (3; 100% of non-empty PartType): fáinneach, ghil, uaisle

AUX

1 ga-pos/AUX tokens (0% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of PartType.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and PartType co-occurred: Form=EMPTY (1; 100%), Tense=Past (1; 100%), PronType=EMPTY (1; 100%), VerbForm=Cop (1; 100%), Polarity=EMPTY (1; 100%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of PartType:

• Comp (1; 100% of non-empty PartType): ba

X

1 ga-pos/X tokens (1% of all X tokens) have a non-empty value of PartType.

The most frequent other feature values with which X and PartType co-occurred: Abbr=EMPTY (1; 100%), PronType=EMPTY (1; 100%), Dialect=Ulster (1; 100%).

X tokens may have the following values of PartType:

• Vb (1; 100% of non-empty PartType): cha

Relations with Agreement in PartType

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in PartType: PART –[conj]–> PART (1; 100%).

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