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- A verb is a morphological unit to which the features mood and tense apply,
in combination with the morphological features person, number and for
participles also the feature gender.
Remark: It exists a range of so called defective verbs, that is verbs which have
not the whole paradigm of inflected forms.
If X has the feature vf-m=ind, vf-m=sub, vf-m=impr, vf-m=cond, vf-m=inf,
or vf-m=part and the feature
tns=pres, tns=impf, tns=fut, or tns=past, X is a verb. Remark: In combination with the
vf-m-value ind, the value tns-value past designates the passé
simple; in combination with the vf-m-value part, the past participle.
- Pierre aime /pos=v & vf-m=ind & tns=pres
- Pierre aima /pos=v & vf-m=ind & tns=past
- Pierre partirait /pos=v & vf-m=cond & tns=pres volontiers en vacances
- Pierre veut que Marie vienne /pos=v & vf-m=sub & tns=pres
- A verb is a morphological unit which is the head of a syntactic constituent,
i. e. a verbal phrase VP.
- Pierre habite /pos=v à Paris / 'habiter' is the head of the verbal phrase
'habiter à Paris'
- A verb is a morphological unit to which frames (roles like agent, patient, goal, etc.)
can be associated.
Given R1, R2, etc. semantic roles,
If R1, R2, etc. can be associated to X, X can be a verb.
- Pierre habite /pos=v à Paris / 'Pierre' is an agent; 'à Paris' is a localization
- A verbal process is located to parameters concerning the situation of enonciation (person, spatial and
temporal localization).
Given P1, P2, etc. parameters concerning the situation of enonciation,
If P1, P2, etc. are associated to X, X can be a verb.
- Pierre partira /pos=v demain à Paris / 'partira', 'demain' for example are only
understandable in relationship with a given temporal localization of this sentence
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