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Preliminary Recommendations

Level 2b specifications

Auxiliary

This attribute encodes information concerning the choice of auxiliary for perfect or compound tenses and obviously is language-specific (e.g. `have', `be' for English).

Separability

This is used in Dutch for verbs including separable particles, such as `fängt ...an.

Clitic

This Boolean-valued feature is introduced at language-specific level to encode the presence in the verbal form of the clitic.

Language-specific values for Tense

The values proposed here for English are ing-form and base-form. The value infinitive incorporating `zu' is added for German.