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resource-0.6/german/TypesGer.gf

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+--1 German Word Classes and Morphological Parameters
+--
+-- This is a resource module for German morphology, defining the
+-- morphological parameters and word classes of German. It is so far only
+-- complete w.r.t. the syntax part of the resource grammar.
+-- It does not include those parameters that are not needed for
+-- analysing individual words: such parameters are defined in syntax modules.
+--
+
+resource TypesGer = open Prelude in {
+
+--2 Enumerated parameter types 
+--
+-- These types are the ones found in school grammars.
+-- Their parameter values are atomic.
+
+param 
+  Number = Sg | Pl ;
+  Gender = Masc | Fem | Neut ;
+  Person = P1 | P2 | P3 ;
+  Case   = Nom | Acc | Dat | Gen ;
+  Adjf   = Strong | Weak ;          -- the main division in adjective declension
+  Order  = Main | Inv | Sub ;       -- word order: direct, indirect, subordinate
+
+-- For abstraction and API compatibility, we define two synonyms:
+
+oper 
+  singular = Sg ; 
+  plural = Pl ;
+
+--2 Word classes and hierarchical parameter types
+--
+-- Real parameter types (i.e. ones on which words and phrases depend) 
+-- are mostly hierarchical. The alternative is cross-products of
+-- simple parameters, but this cannot be always used since it overgenerates.
+--
+
+--3 Common nouns
+--
+-- Common nouns are inflected in number and case and they have an inherent gender.
+
+  CommNoun : Type = {s : Number => Case => Str ; g : Gender} ;
+
+--3 Pronouns
+--
+-- Pronouns are an example - the worst-case one of noun phrases,
+-- which are properly defined in $syntax.Deu.gf$.
+-- Their inflection tables has, in addition to the normal genitive,
+-- the possessive forms, which are inflected like determiners.
+
+param
+  NPForm = NPCase Case | NPPoss GenNum Case ;
+
+--3 Adjectives
+--
+-- Adjectives are a very complex class, and the full table has as many as
+-- 99 different forms. The major division is between the comparison degrees.
+-- There is no gender distinction in the plural, 
+-- and the predicative forms ("X ist Adj") are not inflected.
+
+param
+  GenNum = GSg Gender | GPl ;
+  AForm  = APred | AMod Adjf GenNum Case ;  
+
+oper
+  Adjective : Type = {s : AForm => Str} ;
+  AdjComp : Type = {s : Degree => AForm => Str} ;
+
+-- Comparison of adjectives:
+
+param Degree = Pos | Comp | Sup ;
+
+--3 Verbs 
+--
+-- We have a reduced conjugation with only the present tense infinitive, 
+-- indicative, and imperative forms, and past participles.
+
+param VForm = VInf | VInd Number Person | VImp Number | VPart AForm ;
+
+oper Verbum : Type = VForm => Str ;
+
+-- On the general level, we have to account for composite verbs as well, 
+-- such as "aus" + "sehen" etc.
+
+  Particle = Str ;
+
+  Verb = {s : Verbum ; s2 : Particle} ;
+
+
+--2 Prepositions
+--
+-- We define prepositions simply as strings. Thus we do not capture the
+-- contractions "vom", "ins", etc. To define them in GF grammar we would need
+-- to introduce a parameter system, which we postpone.
+
+  Preposition = Str ;
+
+} ;