Table of contents (long)

General introduction

• Philosophy and goals
• File formats
  • Text (.txt)
  • Part-of-speech (POS) tagged (.pos)
  • Parsed (.psd)
• Text markup

List of tags and empty categories

• POS tags
• Syntactic tags
  • Basic syntactic tags
  • Extended syntactic tags
• Empty categories

Splitting and joining words

• Summary overview
• Items that are split
• Items treated as unitary
• Items treated as compounds
• Items treated as written
• Fused forms

Treatment of individual words (POS and syntactic)

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• Adjectives and adverbs (ADJ, ADV)
• Adverbial particles (RP)
• Cardinal numbers (NUM)
• Complementizers (C)
• Coordinating conjunctions (CONJ)
• Determiners (D)
• Focus particles (FP)
• Foreign words (FW)
• Infinitive markers (FOR, TO) (see Verbs and related categories)
• Interjections (INTJ)
• Modals (MD, MD0) (see Verbs and related categories)
• Negation (NEG)
• Nominals (EX, MAN, N, NPR, PRO)
• Ordinal numbers (see Adjectives)
• Particles (see Adverbial particles)
• Prepositions (P) (includes subordinating conjunctions)
• Punctuation
• Quantifiers (Q)
• Subordinating conjunctions (see Complementizers, Prepositions)
• Verbs and related categories
• Wh- words

• Introduction
  • General principles
    • Dash tags (or extended tags)
    • Structural principles
  • Internal structure of phrases
  • Internal structure of clauses
    • Ordinary IPs (IP-MAT, IP-SUB)
    • Imperatives (IP-IMP)
    • Non-wh CPs
    • Wh- CPs
    • Verb fronting to C
  • Division into sentence tokens
• Internal structure of phrases
  • Adjective phrase (ADJP)
  • Adverb phrase (ADVP)
  • Conjunction phrase (CONJP) (see Conjunction)
  • Fragment (FRAG)
  • Interjection phrase (INTJP)
  • List marker (LS)
  • Noun phrase (NP)
  • Number phrase (NUMP)
  • Prepositional phrase (PP)
  • Quantifier phrase (QP) (see also Floated quantifiers, Measure phrase)
  • Wh-phrase (WADJP, WADVP, WNP, WPP, WQP)
  • Nonstructural labels (CODE, LATIN, etc., META, QTP, REF)
• Conjunction
  • Word-level conjunction
  • Phrase-level conjunction
  • CONJPs with empty heads
  • Conjunction of unlike categories
  • Recursive conjunction structures
  • Shared modifiers
  • Conjunction and negation
  • Extraposed CONJPs
  • Correlative conjunction
  • Clausal conjunction
• Empty categories and resumptive elements
  • Empty subjects
  • Traces
  • Other empty categories
  • The position of empty categories
  • Resumptive elements
• Clause-level constituents
  • Adjective phrase (ADJP)
  • Adverb phrase (ADVP)
  • Noun phrase (NP)
  • Prepositional phrase (PP)
  • Quantifier phrase (QP)
  • Verb phrase (VP)
  • Words as clausal constituents
  • Extended tags (= dash tags)
  • Unknown
• Types of subordinate clauses
  • Adverbial clauses (CP-ADV)
  • THAT clauses (CP-THT)
  • Degree complements (CP-DEG)
  • Comparative clauses (CP-CMP)
  • Questions (CP-QUE)
  • Exclamatives (CP-EXL)
  • Ordinary relative clauses (CP-REL)
  • Reduced relative clauses (RRC)
  • Clause-adjoined relatives (CP-CAR)
  • Free relatives (CP-FRL)
  • IT clefts (CP-CLF)
  • Infinitival clauses (IP-INF)
  • Small clauses (IP-SMC)
  • Participial clauses (IP-PPL)
  • Absolute clauses (IP-ABS, IP-INF-ABS, IP-PPL-ABS)

Annotation differences between the PPCME2 and the later corpora

• Concessive clauses
  • ALL BE IT (THAT), ALBEIT
  • HOW BE IT (THAT), HOWBEIT
  • SO BE IT (THAT)
• DO (causative versus periphrastic)
• ELSE (see Post-head modifiers)
• ENOUGH (see Post-head modifiers)
• Nonfinite clausal complementation
  • Absolute clauses (IP-ABS)
  • Participial clauses (IP-PPL)
  • Small clauses (IP-SMC)
• NP-OB1 with verbs meaning LACK, LIKE, NEED
• Post-head modifiers
• Quantifiers and quantified expressions
  • A LITTLE (see LITTLE)
  • LESS, LEAST and MUCH, MORE, MOST
  • Measure phrases
  • Q+N, Q+WPRO (e.g., SOMETHING, SOMEWHAT)
• Splitting and joining words

Known issues

Index

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