Central semantic of value unique membership class

Morphological criterion

1. A morphological unit has the pos-value unique membership class if it is not autonomous.

Test

If X is a foreign word with first lower-case letter and which is not autonomous in french, X has the pos-value unique membership class.

• de /pos=unique membership class   facto /pos=unique membership class  
• chili /pos=noun   con /pos=unique membership class   carne /pos=unique membership class   / chili est autonome : j'ai mangé un chili.

Test

If X is a foreign word which is not autonomous in french, X has the pos-value unique membership class.

• agnus Dei /pos=unique membership class  
• Der /pos=unique membership class   Spiegel /pos=unique membership class  

Remark: The combination of Der and Spiegel is a complex proper noun.

Test

If X is a non-autonomous french morphological unit with first lower-case letter, and if it is not an adverb with type-value particle, X has the pos-value unique membership class.

• parce /pos=unique membership class   : parce que
• afin /pos=unique membership class   : afin de, afin que
• hui /pos=unique membership class   : aujourd'hui
• tohu /pos=unique membership class   : tohu bohu
• bohu /pos=unique membership class   : tohu bohu

but:

• Il ne /pos=adverb & type=particle   mange pas beaucoup
• Celui-ci /pos=adverb & type=particle   est joli

Test

If X is a french morphological unit which is not a noun and which has a first upper-case letter in a compound proper noun, X has the pos-value unique membership class.

• poire /pos=noun   Belle /pos=unique membership class  -Hélène/pos=unique membership class  
• Haute /pos=unique membership class  -Normandie /pos=noun & type=proper  
• Croix /pos=noun & type=proper   Rouge /pos=unique membership class  
• Le /pos=unique membership class  -Havre /pos=noun & type=proper  
• Louis /pos=noun & type=proper   Quatorze /pos=unique membership class