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 |
|
(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 |
|
(CC" |
as well as |
282) |
CD |
cardinal (2, 3, etc; two, three, etc; hundred, thousand, etc; dozen, zero) 7.17 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
123.440 |
|
(IN" |
as to, in spite of, etc |
1.216) |
JJ |
63.877 |
|
(JJ" |
25) |
|
JJB |
attribute-only adjective (chief, entire, main etc) 7.8 |
3.578 |
(JJB" |
6) |
|
JJR |
1.960 |
|
(JJR" |
1) |
|
JJT |
1.040 |
|
(JJT" |
1) |
|
JNP |
adjective with word-initial capital (English, German, etc) |
|
MD |
modal auxiliary (‘ll, can, could, etc) |
14.861 |
NC |
cited word 7.23 |
370 |
NN |
148.759 |
|
(NN" |
20) |
|
NN$ |
singular common noun + genitive 7.6 |
1.574 |
NNP |
singular common noun with word-initial capital (Englishman, German, etc) |
|
NNP$ |
singular common noun with word-initial capital + genitive |
|
NNPS |
plural common noun with word-initial capital |
782 |
NNPS$ |
plural common noun with word-initial capital + genitive |
|
NNS |
50.838 |
|
(NNS" |
2) |
|
NNS$ |
plural common noun + genitive |
488 |
NNU |
abbreviated unit of measurement unmarked for number (\0hr, \0lb, etc) 7.19 |
|
(NNU" |
per cent |
386) |
NNUS |
abbreviated plural unit of measurement (\0gns, \0yds, etc) |
|
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 |
|
NPL$ |
singular locative noun with word-initial capital + genitive |
|
NPLS |
plural locative noun with word-initial capital |
102 |
NPLS$ |
plural locative noun with word-initial capital + genitive |
|
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 |
|
(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 |
|
NR |
singular adverbial noun (January, February, etc; Sunday, Monday, etc; east, west, etc; today, tomorrow, tonight, downtown, home) 7.10 |
|
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 |
|
(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 |
35.353 |
|
(RB" |
at last, in general, etc |
1.781) |
RB$ |
adverb + genitive (else’s) |
6 |
RBR |
1.375 |
|
RBT |
103 |
|
RI |
adverb (homograph of preposition: below, near, etc) |
|
RN |
nominal adverb (here, now, there, then, etc) |
4.332 |
RP |
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 |
|
(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 |
|
(WDT" |
1) |
|
WDTR |
WH-determiner, relative (which) 7.16 |
4.405 |
WP |
WH-pronoun, interrogative, nom+acc (who, whoever) |
|
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) |
|
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 |