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Inversion

This occurs in interrogative phrases and only brings about a different word form in the Present tense singular, second person. It is an inflectional feature tagged in the Wordforms Lexicon with an `I'.

Attribute Value Du. example Du. tag
Inversion inverted ga (jij)? te2I
geef (jij) aan te2Is

`te2I': present tense, singular, second person, inverted wordform.
`te2Is': present tense, singular, second person, inverted and separable wordform.

The inversion tag is important from the point of view of disambiguation, since the inverted form of the second person singular Present tense is the same as the non-inverted form of the first person singular Present tense.