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<i> Produced by
gfdoc - a rudimentary GF document generator.
(c) Aarne Ranta (aarne@cs.chalmers.se) 2002 under GNU GPL.
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<h1> Common: Structures with Common Implementations.</h1>
This module defines the categories that uniformly have the linearization
<tt>{s : Str}</tt> in all languages.
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abstract Common = {
cat
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<h2> Top-level units</h2>
Constructed in [``Text`` Text.html]: <tt>Text</tt>.
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Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases e.g. "He is here. Why?"
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Constructed in [``Phrase`` Phrase.html]:
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Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "but be quiet please"
Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet"
Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling"
PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conjunction e.g. "therefore"
Interj ; -- interjection e.g. "alas"
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Constructed in [``Sentence`` Sentence.html]:
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SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains"
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<h2> Adverbs</h2>
Constructed in [``Adverb`` Adverb.html].
Many adverbs are constructed in [``Structural`` Structural.html].
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Adv ; -- verb-phrase-modifying adverb e.g. "in the house"
AdV ; -- adverb directly attached to verb e.g. "always"
AdA ; -- adjective-modifying adverb e.g. "very"
AdN ; -- numeral-modifying adverb e.g. "more than"
IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb e.g. "why"
CAdv ; -- comparative adverb e.g. "more"
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<h2> Tense, polarity, and anteriority</h2>
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Temp ; -- temporal and aspectual features e.g. past anterior
Tense ; -- tense e.g. present, past, future
Pol ; -- polarity e.g. positive, negative
Ant ; -- anteriority e.g. simultaneous, anterior
}
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