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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Application to German

Categories with unique members are particles like negation (`nicht'), infinitive marker (`zu') and superlative marker (`am').

The IMS-tagset includes another particle type for separable prefixes. It covers prefixes like `an', `aus', `ein', ...(mostly identical to prepositions), but also other (non-adverbial) prefixes like `rad', `statt' and `instand'.

``er kommt an/PTKVZ''
``er kauft ein/PTKVZ''
``er fährt rad/PTKVZ'' NB: not `Rad'
``es findet statt/PTKVZ''
``er hält das Haus instand/PTKVZ''