Part of speech. The historical language thesaurus TOE classifies the verbs it contains as, simply, verbs or as intransitive or transitive verbs. In case of transitive verbs, this thesaurus leaves the number of objects each verb takes unspecified: they could be either monotransitive (and take only a single object) or ditransitive (and take both a direct and indirect object). When reviewing the terminology in the existing data vocabularies, it is not uncommon to find some of the aforementioned verb classifications missing. The GOLD vocabulary, for instance, contains terminology for intransitive verbs, monotransitive verbs, and ditransitive verbs, but lacks terminology for the more general notion of verbs and for transitive verbs of which it is left unspecified whether they are monotransitive or ditransitive. LexInfo, in contrast, has a generic term for verbs, but lacks discrimination in terminology between transitive and intransitive verbs. Some recent initiatives, such as that of the Global WordNet Association, have opted to create further data vocabularies to fulfil their specific needs in capturing parts of speech.66 There, too, the terminology for parts of speech is incomplete, lacking 62Ibid. 63As demonstrated in Chapter 1. 64‘Lexicon Model for Ontologies’. 65Ibid. 66See ‘Global Wordnet Formats’. The terminology that the association coined for parts of speech has been made available at xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx/schemas/wn. a distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs (not to mention an absence of such parts of speech as interjections, pronouns, and prepositions). DatCatInfo, employed by the Lexical Markup Framework, is a data category repository that contains definitions for parts of speech, amongst others, and constitutes a rich (albeit non-RDF) alternative to the data vocabularies mentioned above. The repository contains both coarse-grained and fine-grained distinctions for parts of 123 speech, including on transitivity, but lists multiple definitions for a single part of speech, each with its own persistent identifier, and appears to be inconclusive as to which is preferred.67 It may well be that there is no one perfect data vocabulary for the parts of speech found across all historical language thesauri. Some of these vocabularies lack specific parts of speech, while others lack (or might even disagree with) the hierarchy between these parts of speech as employed by thesauri. Xxxx-Xxxxxx Xxxxxx’s conclusion, mentioned in Chapter 1 in reference to th...
Part of speech. If a term is defined as one part of speech (such as a noun), it shall have a corresponding meaning when used as another part of speech (such as a verb). Date. The phrase “the date of this Agreement,” “date hereof” and terms of similar import, unless the context otherwise requires, shall be deemed to refer to the date set forth in the preamble of this Agreement.
