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G.E.R.L. Format
  • Lexicon Description
  • Lexicon Specification
  • G.E.R.L. DTD
  • PAROLE/SIMPLE

According to the starting purpose of the lexica, G.E.R.L. should contain the following information:

  • Morphology:

Part of speech

    • Noun: type, gender, number, case, morphological segmentation (suffixes, prefixes), definiteness

    • Verb: type, mode, tense, voice, number, way of saying if it is with particle or not (German and English)

    • Pronoun: type, person, gender, number case

    • Adjectives: gender, number, case, degree

    • Article: gender, number, case, type

    • Adverb: type

    • Numeral: type

    • Preposition

    • Conjunction

    • Verb particle (English and German)

  • Syntax: Cases for prepositions, Main/subordinate sentences for conjunctions and verbs, Personal / not personal verbs, Transitive / intransitive verbs, Mass nouns: nouns with only singular, or plural, or uncountable

  • Semantics: Synonyms, Thematic roles for verbs, Collocations, A way of saying if a word is foreign or no

G.E.R.L. is thought to be a full-form lexicon.

In case of compound words, all the words in the compound one should be already in the dictionary. The part of speech for a compound word is the one of the MAIN word. In case of no possibility of connection between the languages it is said that is a lexical gap.

Because it is followed the PAROLE/SIMPLE structure (SGML encoded), the above structure can be easily changed by modifying the DTD.

Some more specifications:

Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter

Number: singular, plural (mass-nouns, only sg, only pl, uncountable)

Case: N,Ac,D,G (V)

Mode: indicative, conjunctive, conditional, imperative, supine, participle, gerund, infinitive – NOT ALL IN THE DTD

Tense: see the section about the problems – NOT ALL IN THE DTD

Voice: active, passive – NOT IN THE DTD ANYMORE

Person: 1,2,3

Types:

Pron_Type: personal, reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, possessive

Noun_Type: common, proper

Article_type: definite, indefinite, negative(kein in German)

Verb_Type: main, auxiliary, modal, copulative

Numeral_type: ordinal, cardinal, fractional, repetitive, multiplicative, variative

Degree: (positive), comparative (in Romanian are superiority, equality, inferiority), superlative (absolute, relative) – NOT ALL VALUES ARE IN THE DTD

Conjunction (type): coordination, subordination

NOT ALL VALUES are in the DTD’ means that from the possible values are some that require compound entries and not lexemes. That is why only the values below were selected:

- Mood: indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle, gerund, conjunctive

- Tense: present, imperfect, past, more than perfect, simple perfect

- Comperision degree: positive, comparative, superlative