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Preliminary Recommendations

Inflection

There is no distinction in Dutch between strong, weak and mixed inflection, as exists in German. However, the Inflection values determined and indetermined, as proposed by MULTILEX, are applicable to Dutch, since the inflection of Dutch adjectival wordforms partly depends on whether the article preceding the Adjective is definite or indefinite. A Dutch adjective, used attributively, only has no inflection when preceded by an indefinite article or pronoun and followed by a neuter noun. In all other cases it has inflected forms. Used predicatively, adjectives are always without inflection (with the exception of a certain use of superlatives: ``Zijn huis is het mooiste!'').

However, there is no such Inflection value tag in the CELEX tag set, probably because, in the Wordforms Lexicon, the `P' and `PE' tags of Positive and Positive with suffix `-e' cover this domain (see the Degree table).

NB: The table below is a proposal for Dutch, not a CELEX table.

Attribute Value Du. example Du. tag
Inflection determined (het) groote (huis)AdjDet
indetermined (een) groot (huis)AdjIndet

This can be an L2 tag.