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Finiteness and Verb-form/Mood

The feature Finiteness is not encoded in itself, i.e. does not have a special mark in the Italian corpus or in the lexicon. It is implicity contained in the various distinctions of Mood, which is hierarchically dependent on the two possible values of Finiteness: on the one hand, infinitive, participle and gerund are non-finite; on the other hand, indicative, subjunctive, conditional and imperative are finite. It can, therefore, be derived automatically from existing codes. The application of these two features to Italian can be represented as follows:

AttributeValue It. example It. tag
Finitenessnon-finite - -
AttributeValue It. example It. tag
Verb-form/Moodinfinitive amare V/f
participle amato V/p
gerund amando V/g
supine - -
Finitenessfinite - -
AttributeValue It. example It. tag
Verb-form/Moodindicative amo V/s1i
subjunctiveamasse V/s3c
imperativeamate V/p2m
conditionalamerei V/s1d


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