Keywords
Slavic languages
analytical grammar category
corpus query language
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Abstract
A particular challenge for modern textual corpora is the tagging of analytical grammar categories. The components of these categories may be separated in certain contexts by other words or may even be inverted. A particular interest regarding the selection of analytical grammatical forms is centred around the conditional mood in some Slavic languages, as expressed by means of two words: a past verb form and the particle by/б/би/бы, which is why in most modern corpora, this category lacks a specific tag for these compound forms. The case of Polish is particularly complicated because the particle by may either be merged with the participle or used separately; furthermore, its separated form may contain a personal verb ending. Specific queries subject to experiment on Polish and Ukrainian corpora allow selecting the analytical forms in question.
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