Appendix 4: List of tags

Definitions are followed by references to sections in the manual where the tags are discussed. The figures in the righthand column give the total frequency of the tags in the corpus. Ditto tags are given within parantheses; the first word in the examples carries an ordinary tag. For more examples of ditto-tagged sequences, see 7.2.

!

exclamation mark

1.030

&FO

formula 7.22

1.220

&FW

foreign word 7.21

3.111

(

left bracket: ( [

2.903

)

right bracket ) ]

2.975

*’

begin quote: *’ *" 2.6

10.191

**’

end quote: **’ **" 2.6

9.976

*_

dash 7.24

3.930

,

comma 7.24

54.548

.

full stop 7.24

50.288

...

ellipsis

665

:

colon 7.24

1.937

;

semicolon 7.24

2.514

?

question mark

2.584

ABL

pre-qualifier (quite, rather, such) 7.12

1.032

ABN

pre-quantifier (all, half) 7.12

2.833

ABX

pre-quantifier/double conjunction (both)

675

AP

post-determiner (few, fewer, former, last, latter, least, less, little, many, more, most, much, next, only, other, own, same, several, very) 7.12



8.860

(AP"

a few, a little

448)

AP$

other’s

21

APS

others

272

APS$

others’

2

AT

singular article (a, an, every) 7.12

25.906

ATI

singular og plural article (the, no) 7.12

70.219

BE

be 7.5

7.187

BED

were

3.427

BEDZ

was

10.685

BEG

being

907

BEM

am, ‘m

636

BEN

been

3.116

BER

are, ‘re

4.856

BEZ

is, ‘s

12.165

CC

coordinating conjunction (and, and/or, but, nor, only, or, yet) 7.14 - 7.15


36.919

(CC"

as well as

282)

CD

cardinal (2, 3, etc; two, three, etc; hundred, thousand, etc; dozen, zero) 7.17


12.956

CD$

cardinal + genitive

7

CD-CD

hyphenated pair of cardinals 7.17

304

CD1

one, 1 7.17

3.364

CD1$

one’s

62

CD1S

ones

105

CDS

cardinal + plural (tens, millions, dozens)

263

CS

subordinating conjunction (after, although, etc)

18.583

(CS"

in that, so that, etc

850)

DO

do 7.5

2.005

DOD

did

1.174

DOZ

does

618

DT

singular determiner (another, each, that, this) 7.12

9.030

DT$

singular determiner + genitive (another’s)

1

DTI

singular or plural determiner (any, enough, some)

3.349

DTS

plural determiner (these, those)

2.462

DTX

determiner/double conjunction (either, neither) 7.12


376

EX

existensial there 7.10

2.794

HV

have 7.5

4.998

HVD

had, ‘d

5.499

HVG

having

382

HVN

had (past participle)

284

HVZ

has, ‘s

2.916

IN

preposition (about, above, etc) 7.13, 7.15

123.440

(IN"

as to, in spite of, etc

1.216)

JJ

adjective 7.3 - 7.4, 7.8 - 7.9, 7.11

63.877

(JJ"

 

25)

JJB

attribute-only adjective (chief, entire, main etc) 7.8

3.578

(JJB"

 

6)

JJR

comparative adjective 7.9, 7.11

1.960

(JJR"

 

1)

JJT

superlative adjective 7.9, 7.11

1.040

(JJT"

 

1)

JNP

adjective with word-initial capital (English, German, etc)


3.137

MD

modal auxiliary (‘ll, can, could, etc)

14.861

NC

cited word 7.23

370

NN

singular common noun 7.4, 7.6, 7.7

148.759

(NN"

 

20)

NN$

singular common noun + genitive 7.6

1.574

NNP

singular common noun with word-initial capital (Englishman, German, etc)


532

NNP$

singular common noun with word-initial capital + genitive


21

NNPS

plural common noun with word-initial capital

782

NNPS$

plural common noun with word-initial capital + genitive


7

NNS

plural common noun 7.6, 7.7

50.838

(NNS"

 

2)

NNS$

plural common noun + genitive

488

NNU

abbreviated unit of measurement unmarked for number (\0hr, \0lb, etc) 7.19


2.625

(NNU"

per cent

386)

NNUS

abbreviated plural unit of measurement (\0gns, \0yds, etc)


52

NP

singular proper noun 7.7

34.797

NP$

singular proper noun + genitive

2.479

NPL

singular locative noun with wordinitial capital (Abbey, Bridge, etc) 7.7


1.952

NPL$

singular locative noun with word-initial capital + genitive


15

NPLS

plural locative noun with word-initial capital

102

NPLS$

plural locative noun with word-initial capital + genitive


1

NPS

plural proper noun 7.7

406

NPS$

plural proper noun + genitive

28

NPT

singular titular noun with word-initial capital (Archbishop, Captain, etc) 7.7


6.039

(NPT"

 

2)

NPT$

singular titular noun with word capital + genitive

197

NPTS

plural titular noun with word-initial capital

215

NPTS$

plural titular noun with word-initial capital + genitive


4

NR

singular adverbial noun (January, February, etc; Sunday, Monday, etc; east, west, etc; today, tomorrow, tonight, downtown, home) 7.10



2.916

NR$

singular adverbial noun + genitive

48

NRS

plural adverbial noun

84

NRS$

plural adverbial noun + genitive

0

OD

ordinal (1st, 2nd, etc; first, second, etc)

2.069

OD$

ordinal + genitive

0

PN

nominal pronoun (anybody, anyone, anything; everybody, everyone, everything; nobody, none, nothing; somebody, someone, something; so) 7.12, 7.14




2.581

(PN"

no one, some one

120)

PN$

nominal pronoun + genitive

10

(PN$

 

1)

PP$

possessive determiner (my, your, etc) 7.12

17.004

PP$$

possessive pronoun (mine, yours, etc)

204

PP1A

personal pronoun, 1st pers sing nom (I)

7.600

PP1AS

personal pronoun, 1st pers plur nom (we)

3.129

PP1O

personal pronoun, 1st pers sing acc (me)

1.555

PP1OS

personal pronoun, 1st pers plur acc (us, ‘s)

696

PP2

personal pronoun, 2nd pers (you, thou, thee, ye)

4.137

PP3

personal pronoun, 3rd pers sing nom+acc (it)

10.507

PP3A

personal pronoun, 3rd pers sing nom (he, she)

13.160

PP3AS

personal pronoun, 3rd pers plur nom (they)

3.685

PP3O

personal pronoun, 3rd pers plur acc (him, her)

3.784

PP3OS

personal pronoun, 3rd pers plur acc (them, ‘em)

1.715

PPL

singular reflexive pronoun

1.257

PPLS

plural reflexive pronoun, reciprocal pronoun

464

(PPLS"

each other, one another

140)

QL

qualifier (as, awfully, less, more, so, too very, etc)

5.375

QLP

post-qualifier (enough, indeed)

283

RB

adverb 7.10 7.11

35.353

(RB"

at last, in general, etc

1.781)

RB$

adverb + genitive (else’s)

6

RBR

comparative adverb 7.10 - 7.11

1.375

RBT

superlative adverb 7.10 - 7.11

103

RI

adverb (homograph of preposition: below, near, etc)


571

RN

nominal adverb (here, now, there, then, etc)

4.332

RP

adverbial particle (back, down, off, etc) 7.10, 7.13

8.700

TO

infinitival to 7.13

15.842

(TO"

in order to, so as to

268 )

UH

interjection 7.18

1.113

VB

base form of verb (uninflected present tense, imperative, infinitive) 7.5


32.679

(VB"

 

3)

VBD

past tense of verb 7.3

24.679

VBG

present participle, gerund 7.4

12.979

VBN

past participle 7.3

27.031

VBZ

3rd person singular of verb

6.918

WDT

WH-determiner (what, whatever, whatsoever, interrogative which, whichever, whichsoever) 7.16


2.118

(WDT"

 

1)

WDTR

WH-determiner, relative (which) 7.16

4.405

WP

WH-pronoun, interrogative, nom+acc (who, whoever)


149

WP$

WH-pronoun, interrogative, gen (whose)

8

WP$R

WH-pronoun, relative, gen (whose)

293

WPA

WH-pronoun, nom (whosoever)

1

WPO

WH-pronoun, interrogative, acc (whom, whomsoever)


6

WPOR

WH-pronoun, relative, acc (whom)

214

WPR

WH-pronoun, relative, nom+acc (that, relative who)

3.448

WRB

WB-adverb (how, when, etc) 7.16

5.076

XNOT

not, n’t 5.3

7.454

ZZ

letter of the alphabet (e, pi, x, etc) 7.25

1.349