The feature Finiteness is not encoded in itself, i.e. does not have a special mark in the Italian corpus or in the lexicon. It is implicity contained in the various distinctions of Mood, which is hierarchically dependent on the two possible values of Finiteness: on the one hand, infinitive, participle and gerund are non-finite; on the other hand, indicative, subjunctive, conditional and imperative are finite. It can, therefore, be derived automatically from existing codes. The application of these two features to Italian can be represented as follows:
Attribute | Value | It. example | It. tag | |
Finiteness | non-finite | - | - | |
Attribute | Value | It. example | It. tag | |
Verb-form/Mood | infinitive | amare | V/f | |
participle | amato | V/p | ||
gerund | amando | V/g | ||
supine | - | - | ||
Finiteness | finite | - | - | |
Attribute | Value | It. example | It. tag | |
Verb-form/Mood | indicative | amo | V/s1i | |
subjunctive | amasse | V/s3c | ||
imperative | amate | V/p2m | ||
conditional | amerei | V/s1d | ||