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Preliminary Recommendations

Finiteness, Verb-form/Mood

Finite and non-finite verb forms are not distinguished by a single feature in the IMS-tagset.

Non-finite verb forms are infinitive, past participles. Present participle forms are classified as adjectives. For example:

``das lachende/ADJA Kind''
``er kommt lachend/ADJD herein''

AttributeValue Ge. example Ge. tag
Finite
Verb-form/Mood infinitive können VMINF
gehen VVINF
infinitive with anzukommen VVINFZU
incorporated ``zu''
past participle gewesen VAPPF
geliebt VVPPF
Non-Finite
Verb-form/Mood indicative (er) geht VVFIN:3.Sg.Pres.Ind
subjunctive (er) gehe VVFIN:3.Sg.Pres.Konj
imperative geh! VVIMP:2.Pl