Head Types

Note applying to Determiners, Adjectives, Nominals: we have adopted, across the board, a policy of tagging Case on the word-level, but not on the phrase level (grammatical relations are tagged on the phrase level). So if you are searching for Subject, Object, etc., search for the phrase labels, but if you search for Case, you'll have to indicate the appropriate word-level tag.

• RP Adverbial Particles
• FP Focus Particles

Nouns

• N - noun
• NS - noun, plural
• NPR - noun, proper

Quantifiers

• Q

Adjectives

• ADJP

Adverbs

• ADV - adverb
• WADV - wh-adverb, like hvar 'where'

Determiner

• D In cases where the form of a word is completely ambiguous between a demonstrative determiner and a pronoun, the default tag is PRO, as you can see under PRO below.

Pronouns

• PRO (pronoun) Note that sometimes personal pronouns and demonstrative determiners are homophonous in Icelandic. In cases of unresolvable ambiguity, the default tag is PRO (click on PRO for an example).

• REFL (reflexive pronoun)

Verbs

• VBP - verb, present tense
• VBD - verb, past tense
• VBN - past participle
• VAN - passive participle; NOTE: the main verb in impersonal passives is "VAN", though this can be difficult to distinguish from the past participle for some verbs, e.g. KOMA. If it is completely ambiguous, VAN is the default. See VAN or VBN?.

• MD (modals) unlike the Penn English corpora, "MD" is a modal in the infinitive; finite modals are "MDPI","MDDI", etc.; nonfinite modals are "MDN","MAG". All auxiliaries with modal meaning which take a bare VB complement are tagged MD*. Additionally, the verb GETA is tagged MD* when it means "to be able to" and takes a complement headed by a VBN (i.e. "ég get þáttað vel"). When a verb take an AÐ-marked infinitive, it is not tagged MD*. Past infinitives of modals, which only occur with preterite-present verbs, are just tagged MD like normal infinitives. There is no "MDD" tag.

• HV only "hafa"; "eiga" is tagged VB... like other main verbs

• RD is the tag for VERÐA, in all of its uses. See Treatment of individual words.

Other

• LS (list marker)

• FW (foreign word) - If a potential foreign word is found in the Icelandic Dictionary (Íslensk orðabók) it is not tagged as FW.