next up previous contents
Next: Definiteness Up: Application to Swedish Previous: Gender

Preliminary Recommendations

Number

This feature is normally not applicable to proper nouns. For common nouns, the values are singular and plural. The value plural has six different types of realisations, depending on the declination of the noun, which is lexically determined and partially dependent on the Gender value. In one of these declinations, mainly containing neutral nouns, plural is unmarked and thus morphologically indistinguishable from singular.

Attribute Value Sw. example Sw. tag
Number singular (en) stol sb-sg
plural stolar sb-pl