module: core

Class MorphosyntacticFeature


Extends:

        LinguisticFeature
 

Direct Instances:

None
 

Direct Subclasses:

  1. AspectFeature
  2. CaseFeature
  3. EvaluativeFeature
  4. EvidentialityFeature
  5. ForceFeature
  6. GenderFeature
  7. ModalityFeature
  8. MoodFeature
  9. NumberFeature
  10. PersonFeature
  11. PolarityFeature
  12. SizeFeature
  13. TenseFeature
  14. VoiceFeature
 

Class Documentation:

Also called 'grammatical categories', or 'grams', a morphosyntactic feature is the class of linguistic features inhering in form units. Morphosyntactic features give form units their morphosyntactic behavior in a grammar. E.g., two form units can 'agree' according to shared form features. This class is intended to represent only the formal aspects of morphosyntax; that is, there is no notional component. In a grammatical system, attributes of the same type express meanings from the same conceptual domain. That is, they occur in contrast to one another other, and are typically expressed in the same fashion (Crystal 1985: 43-44; Hopper, P. 1992: 81, Bybee 1985: 191). ----------------- FormFeatureValue is the class of values that may be associated with instances of FormFeature. In a FeatureSystem, these dictate the formal properties of the grammar and may or may not be true semantically. A set of FeatureValues forms an integral part of a language's FeatureSystem (Pollard and Sag 1994; Maxwell, Simons, and Hayashi 2001).

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