Parameters of description of the standards proposals

From the above, the following parameters can be derived:

• Depth of description: which lexical information types?
• Breadth of description: fragment coverage
  (single exemplary word classes vs. broad coverage of all classes).
• Language coverage.
• Degree of formalisation (from less to more formal):
  • Inventory of labels (list of descriptive devices);
  • Definition of a vocabulary (as in formal languages);
  • Control of consistency within the vocabulary, e.g. through typing and constraints on appropriateness;
  • Full specification defining also the interaction of the descriptive devices for individual classes of lexical objects.

The work on morphosyntax and on subcategorisation can be summarised, along these parameters, in table 2, below:

 

Parameter Morphosyntax Subcategorisation

References (several reports) (Synlex report)

Information types category phrase types,

morphosyntactic features grammatical functions, complement-argument linking

Word classes all verbs

Languages EU languages generic, EU languages Formalisation:

- Inventory of labels + (Morphsyn report) +

- Vocabulary definitions + (Morphsyn report) +

- Consistency control + (ELM reports) +

- Full specifications + (ELM reports)