Preliminary Recommendations

EAGLES features not applicable

Use

-- As mentioned for other languages, attributive/predicative use is a syntactic distinction which applies to French. Since all adjectives can be used either in attributive or in predicative position and would not allow for other disambiguations, the distinction is not relevant in a tagset.

Degree

-- Applies to French, but is marked by external premodifiers and therefore does not require a special adjective class in the tagset.

Modification type

-- Applies to French; in some specific cases, the position even implies a semantic distinction: e.g. ``un grand homme'' (`a great man') vs. ``un homme grand'' (`a tall man'). Although the distinction could be of interest in a tagset for its prediction potential, it is not used in the IBMF tagset.

Case

-- Does not apply to French.

Inflection type

-- Does not apply to French.

Definiteness

-- Does not apply, although it applies for other types of French `adjectives' (see corpus and lexicon determiners).