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Preliminary Recommendations

Definiteness

This is a language-specific morphological feature, since Swedish, like the other Scandinavian languages (and certain Balkan languages) possesses enclitic definite articles. The feature is normally not applicable to proper nouns. The values are indefinite and definite and their realisations are directly dependent on the Gender value if the Number value is singular. In plural, the Gender distinction is unmarked.

Attribute Value Sw. example Sw. tag
Definiteness indefinite (en) stol sb-nonneu-sg-indef
definite stolen sb-nonneu-sg-def