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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Application to Italian

The following set of morphological features are pertinent to Verbs in Italian: Mood, Tense, Person, Gender and Number. These features, variously combined, dynamically generate the inflected forms of the Italian verbal system, but not all the features and sometimes not all the values of a feature are applied to an inflected form. The constraints in the application of these features are made explicit in the sections devoted to each feature.

The following attribute-value sets are applied to Italian verbs.