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Preliminary Recommendations

Number

AttributeValue It. example It. tag
Number singular (il) libro S/ms
plural (i) libri S/mp
l-spec invariant(la/le) attivitá S/fn

In Italian, the value invariant (It. tag: n), i.e. the same morphological form for the singular and the plural, is also used. In particular, this value has to be coded in a lexicon, while in a corpus the context usually solves the ambiguity.

``L'uomo svolgeva alcune attivitá particolari'' (plur.)
``L'uomo svolgeva un' attivitá particolare'' (sing.)