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Universal features

For core part-of-speech categories, see the universal POS tags. The features listed here distinguish additional lexical and grammatical properties of words, not covered by the POS tags.

Lexical features Inflectional features
Nominal* Verbal*
PronType Gender VerbForm
NumType Animacy Mood
Poss NounClass Tense
Reflex Number Aspect
Foreign Case Voice
Abbr Definite Evident
Typo Degree Polarity
Person
Polite
Clusivity
  Index: A abbreviation, abessive, ablative, absolute superlative, absolutive, accusative, active, actor-focus voice, additive, adessive, admirative, adverbial participle, affirmative, allative, animate, antipassive, aorist, article, aspect, associative, B bantu noun class, benefactive, beneficiary-focus voice, C cardinal, case, causative case, causative voice, clusivity, collective noun, collective numeral, collective pronominal, comitative, common gender, comparative case, comparative degree, complex definiteness, conditional, conjunctive, considerative, construct state, converb, count plural, counting form, D dative, definite, definiteness, degree of comparison, delative, demonstrative, desiderative, destinative, direct case, direct voice, directional allative, distributive case, distributive numeral, dual, E elative, elevated referent, emphatic, equative case, equative degree, ergative, essive, evidentiality, exclamative, exclusive, F factive, feminine, finite verb, first person, firsthand, foreign word, formal, fourth person, fraction, frequentative, future, G gender, genitive, gerund, gerundive, greater paucal, greater plural, H habitual, human, humbled speaker, I illative, imperative, imperfect tense, imperfective aspect, inanimate, inclusive, indefinite, indefinite pronominal, indicative, inessive, infinitive, informal, injunctive, instructive, instrumental, interrogative, inverse number, inverse voice, iterative, J jussive, L lative, location-focus voice, locative, M masculine, masdar, mass noun, middle voice, modality, mood, motivative, multiplicative numeral, N narrative, necessitative, negative polarity, negative pronominal, neuter, nominative, non-finite verb, non-firsthand, non-human, non-past, non-specific indefinite, noun class, number, numeral type, O oblique case, optative, ordinal, P participle, partitive, passive, past, past perfect, patient-focus voice, paucal, perfective aspect, perlative, person, personal, pluperfect, plural, plurale tantum, polarity, politeness, positive degree, positive polarity, possessive, potential, present, preterite, progressive, prolative, pronominal type, prospective, purposive case, purposive mood, Q quantifier, quantitative plural, quotative, R range numeral, reciprocal pronominal, reciprocal voice, reduced definiteness, reflexive, register, relative, S second person, set numeral, singular, singulare tantum, specific indefinite, subjunctive, sublative, superessive, superlative, supine, T temporal, tense, terminal allative, terminative, third person, total, transgressive, translative, trial, typo, U uter, V verb form, verbal adjective, verbal adverb, verbal noun, vocative, voice, Z zero person
* The labels Nominal and Verbal are used as approximate categories only. There is no universal rule that a particular feature can only occur with verbs or nominals (although language-specific rules may define such constraints). Even the boundary between lexical and inflectional features is sometimes blurred: for example, gender is a lexical feature of nouns but an inflectional feature of adjectives or verbs.

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