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Central semantics

Residual class is a collective class for special items that are graphically different from normal alphabetic words, but that are not easily put into one of the other classes; in contrast to unique member, these items are also not so easily interpreted as linguistic items in the first place.

pos=resid
D e s c r i p t i o nE x a m p l e s
Punctuation marksEs war sieben Uhr ./resid  
Non-words, special charactersEin Vierkant 80x80x80/resid  
Abreviated compounds (Compound gapping specific to German)Suppen-/resid   und Salatsch"usseln
Foreign materialDer Film ``la/resid   mujer/resid   de Benjamin''