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--1 Infrastructure with common implementations.
-- This module defines the categories that uniformly have the linearization
-- ${s : Str}$ in all languages. They are given lock fields that guarantee
-- grammatical correctness via type checking.
-- Moreover, this module defines the abstract parameters of tense, polarity, and
-- anteriority, which are used in [Phrase Phrase.html] to generate different
-- forms of sentences. Together they give 2 x 4 x 4 = 16 sentence forms.
-- These tenses are defined for all languages in the library. More tenses
-- can be defined in the language extensions, e.g. the "passé simple" of
-- Romance languages.
abstract Common = {
cat
--2 Top-level units
-- Constructed in [Text Text.html]: $Text$.
Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases
Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "But come here my darling."
-- Constructed in [Phrase Phrase.html]: $Phr$ and
Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet"
Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling"
PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conj. e.g. "therefore"
SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains"
SC ;
Adv ;
AdV ;
AdA ;
AdS ;
AdN ;
--2 Adverbs
-- Constructed in [Adverb Adverb.html].
-- Many adverbs are constructed in [Structural Structural.html].
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"
Pol ;
Tense ;
Ant ;
fun
PPos, PNeg : Pol ; -- I sleep/don't sleep
TPres : Tense ;
ASimul : Ant ;
TPast, TFut, TCond : Tense ; -- I slept/will sleep/would sleep --# notpresent
AAnter : Ant ; -- I have slept --# notpresent
}