Feature Structure File Documentation

Alison Alvarez

Modality.txt

Lexical Aspect

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Modality

Tense

Grammatical-Aspect

Activity-accomplishment

Actor, actor-undergoer

#all

Declarative

Internal permission, external permission, obligation-internal, obligation-external-weak, obligation-external-strong, potential

Past Present/Future

Perfective, habitual, habitual, progressive

progressive, neutral neutral

Evidentials.txt

Lexical Aspect

Assertiveness

Polarity

Source

Tense

Gram.

Aspect

activity-accomplishment

Assertiveness-asserted, Assetiveness-neutral

Polarity-positive, Polarity-negative

Hearsay, quotative, inferred, assumption

Visual, Auditory, non-visual-or-auditory

Past Present, Future Past Present

Perfective, progressive, habitual, neutral

habitual, neutral, progressive

Perfective, progressive, habitual, neutral

habitual, neutral, progressive

Assertiveness.txt

Lexical Aspect

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Assertiveness

Tense

Grammatical-Aspect

Activity-accomplishment

Actor, actor-undergoer

#all

Declarative

Asserted, not-asserted, wanted, pre-supposed, hypothetical

Past Present/Future

Perfective, habitual, habitual, progressive

progressive, neutral neutral

A&T-Beneficiary.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Phase Aspect

Lexical Aspect

Grammatical-Aspect

Tense

Actor-beneficiary

#all

#all

Neutral, inceptive, completive

activity-accomplishment, achievement semelfactive

Neutral Perfective habitual,Progressive

Past, present, future, recent-past,

Past, recent-past

Past, present, future, recent-past, present-perfect, past-perfect, future-perfect

A&T-Copula.txt

Case Marking/Copula-type

Polarity

General Type

Phase Aspect

Lexical Aspect

Grammatical-Aspect

Tense

Actor-pred/copula-role

#all

#all

Neutral, inceptive, completive

State

Neutral Perfective habitual, progressive

Past, present, future, recent-past,

Past, recent-past

Past, present, future, recent-past, present-perfect, past-perfect, future-perfect

A&T-Intrans.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Phase Aspect

Lexical Aspect

Grammatical-Aspect

Tense

Actor

#all

#all

Neutral, inceptive, completive

activity-accomplishment, achievement semelfactive

Neutral Perfective habitual,Progressive

Past, present, future, recent-past,

Past, recent-past

Past, present, future, recent-past, present-perfect, past-perfect, future-perfect

A&T-Trans.txt & A&T-Trans-switch.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Phase Aspect

Lexical Aspect

Grammatical-Aspect

Tense

Actor-Undergoer

#all

#all

Neutral, inceptive, completive

activity-accomplishment, achievement semelfactive

Neutral Perfective habitual,Progressive

Past, present, future, recent-past,

Past, recent-past

Past, present, future, recent-past, present-perfect, past-perfect, future-perfect

Causative-openq.txt

Case Marking

General Type

Question Gap

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

Causee-control

Causee volitionality

Causation Directness

Causer-causee-causative-underoger, Causer-causee

Open Question

Gap-causer

Present Past, Future

Progressive neutral

In-control not-in-control

Willing unwilling neutral

Direct Direct, Indirect Direct, Indirect

Causative-yn+dec.txt

Case Marking

General Type

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

Causee-control

Causee volitionality

Causation Directness

Causer-causee-causative-underoger, Causer-causee

Y/N question, declarative

Present Past, Future

Progressive neutral

In-control not-in-control

Willing unwilling neutral

Direct Direct, Indirect Direct, Indirect

General-Rel.txt

Case Marking

Rel-Clause-Polarity

Rel-Clause-tense

Rel-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Actor

#all

Present Past, Future

Progressive Neutral

Present Past,Future Present Past,Future

Neutral Progressive Neutral Progressive

Gen-Rel-Undergoer.txt

Case Marking

Rel-Clause-Polarity

Rel-Clause-tense

Rel-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Actor-undergoer

#all

Present Past, Future

Progressive Neutral

Present Past,Future Present Past,Future

Neutral Progressive Neutral Progressive

Gen-Rel-Copula.txt

Case Marking

Rel-Clause-Polarity

Rel-Clause-tense

Rel-clause-lexical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Actor

#all

Past, Present, Future

State

Present Past,Future

Neutral Progressive

Gen-Rel-Copula-undergoer.txt

Case Marking

Rel-Clause-Polarity

Rel-Clause-tense

Rel-clause-lexical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

Actor

#all

Past, Present, Future

State

Present Past,Future

Neutral Progressive

General-comp.txtCase Marking

C-function

comp-Polarity

comp-general-type

comp-Question-gap

comp-Clause-tense

comp-clause-Grammatical-aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

actor-undergoer

Complement, quoted

#all

Declarative, y/n-question open-question

Gap-neutral Gap-undergoer

Present Past, Future Present Past, Future

Progressive Neutral Progressive Neutral

Present Past,Future Present Present Present Past, Future

Past, Future Past,Future

Progressive neutral Progressive neutral Progressive neutral Progressive neutral

General-comp-copula-yn+dec.txt

Case Marking

C-function

comp-Clause-Polarity

comp-clause-general-type

comp-Clause-tense

comp-clause-Lexical-aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

actor-undergoer

Quoted, complement

#all

Declarative, y/n-question

Present, Past, Future

State

Present Past,Future

Progressive neutral

General-comp-copula-openq.txt

actor-undergoer

Complement, quoted

#all

open-question

gap-undergoer

Present, Past, Future

State

Present Past,Future

Progressive neutral

Case Marking

C-function

comp-Clause-Polarity

comp-clause-general-type

comp-Clause-tense

comp-clause-Lexical-aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

General-imp-exist-comp-open-q.txtCase Marking

C-function

Comp-Clause-Polarity

Comp-clause-general-type

Comp-clause-question-gap

Comp-Clause-tense

Comp-Grammatical-aspect

Comp-Secondary-type

Comp-Lexical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

actor-undergoer

Complement, Quoted

#all

open-question

gap-actor

Present Past, Future

Progressive neutral

Impersonal Existential

Activity-accomplishment State

Present Past,Future Present Past,Future

Progressive neutral Progressive neutral

General-imp-exist-comp-yn+dec.txtactor-undergoer

Complement, quoted

#all

y/n question, declarative

Present Past, Future

Progressive neutral

Impersonal Existential

Activity-accomplishment State

Present Past,Future Present Past,Future

Progressive neutral Progressive neutral

Case Marking

C-function

Comp-Clause-Polarity

Comp-clause-general-type

Comp-Clause-tense

Comp-Grammatical-aspect

Comp-Secondary-type

Comp-Lexical-Aspect

Main-Clause-Tense

Main-clause-Grammatical-Aspect

General-main-clause-yn+dec.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

Actor, actor-undergoer

#all

y/n-question, declarative

Present Past, future

Progressive Neutral

General-main-clause-open-q.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Question-Gap

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

Actor, actor-undergoer

#all

Open-question

Gap-actor

Present Past, future

Progressive Neutral

General-main-clause-yn+dec-undergoer.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

undergoer

#all

y/n-question, declarative

Present Past, future

Progressive Neutral

General-main-clause-yn+dec-actor-goal.txt

Case Marking

Polarity

General Type

Tense

Grammatical Aspect

actor-goal

#all

y/n-question, declarative

Present Past, future

Progressive Neutral

NP-generic-actor.txt

Case marking

Identifiability

Specificity

Number

Person

Gender

Animacy

Type

Actor

Generic

Neutral

Neutral

Third

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common/pronoun Common/pronoun

NP-generic-actor-copula.txtCase marking

Identifiability

Specificity

Number

Person

Gender

Animacy

Type

Lexical Aspect

Actor

Generic

Neutral

Neutral

Third

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common/pronoun Common/pronoun

State State

NP-generic-possessor.txt

Case marking

Identifiability

Specificity

Number

Person

Gender

Animacy

Type

Actor-possessor

Generic

Neutral

Neutral

Third

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common/pronoun Common/pronoun

NP-generic-undergoer.txt

Case marking

Identifiability

Specificity

Number

Person

Gender

Animacy

Type

Actor-Undergoer

Generic

Neutral

Neutral

Third

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common/pronoun Common/pronoun

NP-reflexive-comp.txt

Case marking

Antecedent

Antecedent Function

Number

Type

Gender

Animacy

Person

Actor-Complement-undergoer

Governing-Clause

undergoer

Single, plural, dual

pronoun

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

First, Second, Third Third

NP-reflexive-clause-mate.txt

Case marking

Antecedent

Antecedent Function

Number

Type

Gender

Animacy

Person

Actor-undergoer

Clause-mate

undergoer

Single, plural, dual

pronoun

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

First, Second, Third Third

NP-actor.txtCase marking

Gender

Animacy

NP-type

Antecedent

Person

Number

Inclusivity

Identifiability

Specificity

Actor

Male/female gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common Proper Pronoun Common Pronoun

n/a n/a not-specified n/a not-specified

Third third third/second first third third

Sg./Pl.Dual Sg. Sg/Pl./Dual Sg/Dual Pl Sg. Sg.

n/a n/a n/a n/a inclusive, n/a n/a

exclusive, n/a

Ident. Unident. Ident ident ident ident ident unident ident

Specific spec/not-spec Specific Specific Specific Specific Specific Spec/Not-Spec Specific

NP-undergoer.txtCase marking

Gender

Animacy

NP-type

Antecedent

Person

Number

Inclusivity

Identifiability

Specificity

Actor-undergoer (all of the below applies to undergoer only)

Male/female gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common Proper Pronoun Common Pronoun

n/a n/a not-specified n/a not-specified

Third third third/second first third third

Sg./Pl.Dual Sg. Sg/Pl./Dual Sg/Dual Pl Sg. Sg.

n/a n/a n/a n/a inclusive, n/a n/a

exclusive, n/a

Ident. Unident. Ident ident ident ident ident unident ident

Specific spec/not-spec Specific Specific Specific Specific Specific Spec/Not-Spec Specific

NP-possessor.txtCase marking

Gender

Animacy

NP-type

Antecedent

Person

Number

Inclusivity

Identifiability

Specificity

Actor-possessor

Male/female gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common Proper Pronoun Common Pronoun

n/a n/a not-specified n/a not-specified

Third third third/second first third third

Sg./Pl.Dual Sg. Sg/Pl./Dual Sg/Dual Pl Sg. Sg.

n/a n/a n/a n/a inclusive, n/a n/a

exclusive, n/a

Ident. Unident. Ident ident ident ident ident unident ident

Specific spec/not-spec Specific Specific Specific Specific Specific Spec/Not-Spec Specific

NP-possessor-intransitive.txtCase marking

Gender

Animacy

NP-type

Antecedent

Person

Number

Inclusivity

Identifiability

Specificity

Actor-possessor

Male/female gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common Proper Pronoun Common Pronoun

n/a n/a not-specified n/a not-specified

Third third third/second first third third

Sg./Pl.Dual Sg. Sg/Pl./Dual Sg/Dual Pl Sg. Sg.

n/a n/a n/a n/a inclusive, n/a n/a

exclusive, n/a

Ident. Unident. Ident ident ident ident ident unident ident

Specific spec/not-spec Specific Specific Specific Specific Specific Spec/Not-Spec Specific

NP-possessor-undergoer.txtCase marking

Gender

Animacy

NP-type

Antecedent

Person

Number

Inclusivity

Identifiability

Specificity

Actor-possessor-undergoer

Male/female gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Common Proper Pronoun Common Pronoun

n/a n/a not-specified n/a not-specified

Third third third/second first third third

Sg./Pl.Dual Sg. Sg/Pl./Dual Sg/Dual Pl Sg. Sg.

n/a n/a n/a n/a inclusive, n/a n/a

exclusive, n/a

Ident. Unident. Ident ident ident ident ident unident ident

Specific spec/not-spec Specific Specific Specific Specific Specific Spec/Not-Spec Specific

NP-interrogative-actor.txt

Case marking

General-Type

Question Gap

NP Type

Identifiability/Specificity

Person

Number

Gender

Animacy

Actor-undergoer

Open Question

Gap-actor

Interrogative-type

Neutral/neutral

Third

Singular, Plural, Dual

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

NP-interrogative-undergoer.txt

Case marking

General-Type

Question Gap

NP Type

Identifiability/Specificity

Person

Number

Gender

Animacy

Actor-undergoer

Open Question

Gap-undergoer

Interrogative-type

Neutral/neutral

Third

Singular, Plural, Dual

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

NP-interrogative-possessor.txt

Case marking

General-Type

Question Gap

NP Type

Identifiability/Specificity

Person

Number

Gender

Animacy

Actor-possessor-undergoer

Open Question

Gap-possessor

Interrogative-type

Neutral/neutral

Third

Singular, Plural, Dual

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

NP-interrogative-copula.txt

Case marking

General-Type/Lexical Aspect

Question Gap

NP Type

Identifiability/Specificity

Person

Number

Gender

Animacy

Actor-undergoer

Open Question/State

Gap-actor

Interrogative-type

Neutral/neutral

Third

Singular, Plural, Dual

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

NP-distance.txt

Case marking

General-Type

Distance

NP Type

Identifiability/Specificity

Person

Number

Gender

Animacy

Actor-undergoer

Declarative

Neutral, Near, Far, Very Far

Pronoun

Neutral/neutral

Third

Singular, Plural, Dual

Male/Female Gender-n/a

Human inanimate

Notes

• Interrogative

• All NP