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Preliminary Recommendations

Number

Attribute Value Du. example Du. tag
Number singular kanarie e
plural kanaries m

These attribute values are not present in the LEMMAS lexicon, but are presented in the CELEX Wordforms Lexicon. As will be seen below, `e' and `m' also feature in verbal tags.

CELEX distinguishes two other Noun features as well: diminutive singular and diminutive plural. Flection Type tags are : `de' and `dm'.

Attribute Value Du. example Du. tag
Diminutive-Numbersingular kanarietje de
plural kanariestjes dm

This could be an L2 tag.