A tagset is a list of part-of-speech tags (POS tags for short), i.e. labels used to indicate the part of speech and sometimes also other grammatical categories (case, tense etc.) of each token in a text corpus.
Cundeelee Wangka POS tagset
Cundeelee Wangka part-of-speech tagset is available in Cundeelee Wangka corpora annotated by linguists from Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre in Kalgoorlie, Australia.
An Example of a tag in the CQL concordance search box: [tag="(.*+|b)Pst(+.*|b)"]
finds all verbs in past tense, e.g. tjunu, watjarnu (note: please make sure that you use straight double quotation marks)
POS Tag | Description | Example |
Assoc | associated with | tjukurritja |
Bene | benefactor / for someone | kurtaku |
Com | command suffix for verbs | mantjila |
Cmp | completed action | N/A |
Cont | continuous action | ngarrima |
DiffSbj | different subject / action of another / other actor | nyinanyangka |
Emph | emphatic | palyartu |
From | coming from a location or after an action | palunytjanu |
Ft | future tense of verb | yungku |
I | instrument | yapungka |
Imp | imperative (command) | N/A |
IntrsSbj | subject of an intransitive sentence | tjurta |
Loc | location | wiltjangka |
Name | proper name | Urrkakulpa |
Neg | negative | wiya |
Obj | object | kuka |
Pert | pertaining to | malikitja |
Poss | possessive | palumpa |
Pres | present tense of verb | ngaranyi |
Prgr | progressive | N/A |
Pst | past tense of verb | tjunu |
PstReg | past regressive | ngalkuningi |
SeqSim | actions in sequence (one subject or doer who does various things one after the other or simultaneously) | pakara |
Sbj | subject | paluru |
TrsSbj | subject of a transitive sentence | tjurtangku |
T | time (when) | wiyangka |
1sg | 1st person singular (I) | ngayuku |
1dl | 1st person dual (we two) | ngali |
1pl | 1st person plural (we all) | nganarna |
2sg | 2nd person singular (you one) | nyurra |
2dl | 2nd person dual (you two) | N/A |
2pl | 2nd person plural (you all) | N/A |
3sg | 3rd person singular (he, she, it) | paluru |
3pl | 3rd person dual (they two) | pula |
3dl | 3rd person plural (they all) | tjana |
Where example is N/A, no actual use of the tag has been observed in existing Cundeelee Wangka corpora.
Bibliography
Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre. See more at http://wangka.com.au/about-languages/cundeelee-wangka/
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