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Preliminary Recommendations

Finiteness and Verb-form/Mood

In its previous form, the Greek Morphological Lexicon did not code the feature Finiteness, while the features Verb-Form and Mood were kept distinct, the former taking as values finite and participle, and the latter indicative and imperative. However, a combination of these two features could give information on finiteness. Apart from participles, all other simple forms in Greek are finite and may take the values indicative and imperative as regards mood.

In the current re-organisation of the lexicon, it has been decided to abandon this scheme in favour of the one proposed by EAGLES. The following table shows the new categorisation. (For the formation of the subjunctive and the conditional mood a compound form is used, as presented in the following table.)

AttributeValue Gr. example Gr. tag
Finitenessnon-finite ghrafontas VbNf
AttributeValue Gr. example Gr. tag
Verb-form/Mood infinitive eisahthei VbNf If
participle eisaghomenos VbNfPp
Finitenessfinite eisaghw Vb Fi
AttributeValue Gr. example Grtag
Verb-form/Moodindicative eisaghw VbFi Id
imperativeghrapse VbFiMp
(subjunctive)(na ghrapsw) (VbFiSj)

In the new form of the ILSP Lexicon, we have also decided to recognise as a distinct entity the infinitival form in Greek. This form is only used for the generation of certain compound tenses and cannot be found on its own; it is the same, morphologically, as the third singular person used for the formation of the future tense or the subjunctive mood (again formed periphrastically, with the combination of a particle), and, thus, in order to avoid generation of unnecessary ambiguity, the value indicative was used for both forms in the former version of the Lexicon:

``O Ghiannys tha teleiwsei'' (future - untns 3rd sing.)
``O Ghiannys ehei teleiwsei'' (pres.perf. - inf.)


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