Preliminary Guidelines on Noun Word Formation in the RUEG Corpus (German)

Special Cases

Here are some cases where we have to pay attention when annotating.

diminutives (work in progress, to be discussed)

Diminutives are a type of derivation, see grammis: Systematische Grammatik/.../Die Transposition:

Der Gegenfall zur Transposition ist die Determination: In Derivaten wie Kindchen, gelblich, hypergemein wird determiniert. So bestimmt z.B. das Suffix -chen die Basis Kind semantisch näher als 'Kind, und zwar ein besonders kleines, liebenswertes, niedliches'. >>>

It may be that the stem vowel changes in this derivational process. This is indicated in column 2 & 3.

lemma = "Pünktchen"

:small_blue_diamond: (N:der (N Punkt) (SFX chen))

graph TD;
  A{{N:der}}---B(N <br> Punkt);
  A---C(SFX <br> chen);

non-native WF (work in progress, to be discussed)

To the best of our ability, we annotate this with the label set of native WF and by using the German orthography instead of the non-native one. See, for instance, the deverbal noun "Reaktion": We use the verb lemma "agieren" instead of "agere (āctum)".

lemma = "Reaktion"

:small_blue_diamond: (N:der (V:der (VPFX re) (V agieren)) (NSFX ion))

graph TD;
  A{{N:der}}---B{{V:der}};
  B---C(VPFX <br> re);
  B---D(V <br> agieren);
  A---E(NSFX <br> ion);

prefixed deverbal noun, yet not a prefix verb

lemma = "Rücksicht"

:small_blue_diamond: (N:cdet (PFX rück) (N:der (V sehen)))

graph TD;
  A{{N:cdet}}---B(PFX <br> rück);
  A---C{{N:der}};
  C---D(V <br> sehen);