Overview

All the words are analysed with dictionary form + grammatical tags. Each tag is introduced with a “+” sign. We thus have

bïjlem bïjle+N+Sg+Acc
båatam båetedh+V+IV+Ind+Prs+Sg1

The main parts of speech (POS) for South Saami are:

Nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, particles, subjunctions, conjunctions, postpositions, prepositions and interjections.

The nouns

The string is “+N+Number+Case+Possessivesuffix+Clitic”. The word form “nïejteme” ‘my girl’ is thus analysed as “nïejte+N+Sg+Nom+PxSg1”.

Here is a list of the nominal tags, given in the same order as for the analysis.

Part of speech:
Number:	+Sg, +Pl
Case:	+Ess +Nom +Gen +Acc +Ill +Ine +Ela +Com
(Possessive suffix:)	+PxSg1 +PxSg2 +PxSg3 +PxDu1 +PxDu2 +PxDu3 +PxPl1 +PxPl2 +PxPl3

The adjectives

Used non-attributively the adjective resembles the noun:

Part of speech:	+A
(Grade:)	+Comp, +Superl
Number:	+Sg, +Pl
Case:	+Ess +Nom +Gen +Acc +Ill +Ine +Ela +Com

Used attributively the adjective has a quite simple tag scheme:

Part of speech:	+A
Attribute	+Attr

The verbs

Finite and infinite verb forms have quite distinct paradigms. Finite first:

Part of speech:	+V
(Derivation)	+Der/PassL
Mood:	+Ind, +Cond, +Imprt
Tense	+Prs, +Prt
Person/Number	+Sg1 +Sg2 +Sg3 +Du1 +Du2 +Du3 +Pl1 +Pl2 +Pl3, +ConNeg

Infinite verb forms:

Part of speech:	+V
(Derivation:)	+Der/PassL
Nominal verb form	+Inf, +Ger, +PrsPrc, +PrfPrc, VGen, +VAbess

The pronouns

The personal, demonstrative and interrogative pronouns:

baseform+Pron+Pers+NumberPerson+Case

Example:

underlying form: manne+Pron+Pers+Sg1+Com, surface form: mannine
dat+Pron+Dem+Pl+Nom

The reflexive pronouns:

baseform+Pron+pronoun_type+Case(+possessive suffix)

Example: underlying form: ieš+Pron+Refl+Loc+PxDu1, surface form: alddáme

The indeclinable words

These have their POS tag as their only tag:

underlying form: birra+Pr or birra+Po
surface form:    birra

Alphabetic list over the tags

Part of speech

• +A:
  Adjective
• +Adv:
  Adverb
• +CC:
  Conjunction
• +CS:
  Subjunction
• +Interj:
  Interjection
• +N:
  Noun
• +Num:
  Numeral
• +Pcle:
  Particle
• +Po:
  Postposition
• +Pr:
  Preposition
• +Pron:
  Pronoun
• +V:
  Verb

Sub-part of speech

• +Dem:
  Demonstrative
• +Indef:
  Indefinite
• +Interr:
  Interrogative
• +Pers:
  Person
• +Prop:
  Propernoun
• +Recipr:
  Reciprocal
• +Refl:
  Reflexive
• +Rel:
  Relative

Grammatical properties

• +ABBR:
  Abbreviation
• +ACR:
  Accronym
• +Acc:
  Accusative
• +Actio:
  Actio form of the verb
• +Actor:
  Actor noun
• +Attr:
  Attributive
• +CLB:
  Clause boundary
• +Card:
  Cardinal
• +Cmpnd:
  Compound (inconsistent with other notation for this tag)
• +Cmpnd+:
  Compound (left tag)(inconsistent with other notation for this tag)
• +Com:
  Comitative
• +Comp:
  Comperative
• +ConNeg:
  Negationform of the verb
• +Cond:
  Conditional
• +Du:
  Dual
• +Du1:
  Dual 1. person
• +Du2:
  Dual 2. person
• +Du3:
  Dual 3. person
• +Ess:
  Essive
• +Foc/ba:
  Focusclitic (-)ba
• +Foc/bat:
  Focusclitic (-)bat
• +Foc/be:
  Focusclitic (-)be
• +Foc/ge:
  Focusclitic (-)ge
• +Foc/gen:
  Focusclitic (-)gen
• +Foc/ges:
  Focusclitic (-)ges
• +Foc/gis:
  Focusclitic (-)gis
• +Foc/hal:
  Focusclitic (-)hal
• +Foc/han:
  Focusclitic (-)han
• +Foc/naj:
  Focusclitic (-)nai
• +Foc/naj+Qst:
  Focusclitic (-)naigo
• +Foc/son:
  Focusclitic (-)son
• +Gen:
  Genitive
• +Ger:
  Gerund
• +Guess:
  Tag indicating form not in the lexicon !Not in use
• +IV:
  Intrasitive verb
• +Ill:
  Illative
• +Imprt:
  Imperative
• +ImprtII:
  Imperative II
• +Ind:
  Indicative
• +Inf:
  Infinitive
• +LEFT:
  Left parenthesis
• +Loc:
  Locative
• +Neg:
  Negationverb
• +Nom:
  Nominative
• +Ord:
  Ordinal
• +PUNCT:
  Punctuation other than clause boundaries”/”, “(“, “)”, “+”
• +Der/PassL, +Der/PassS:
  Long and short passive
• +Pl:
  Plural
• +Pl1:
  Plural 1. person
• +Pl2:
  Plural 2. person
• +Pl3:
  Plural 3. person
• +Cmp/PlGen:
  Plural genitive compound
• +Pot:
  Potential
• +PrfPrc:
  Perfect participle
• +Prs:
  Present tense
• +PrsPrc:
  Present participle
• +Prt:
  Preteritum
• +PxDu1:
  Possessivesuffix dual 1. person
• +PxDu2:
  Possessivesuffix dual 2. person
• +PxDu3:
  Possessivesuffix dual 3. person
• +PxPl1:
  Possessivesuffix plural 1. person
• +PxPl2:
  Possessivesuffix plural 1. person
• +PxPl3:
  Possessivesuffix plural 1. person
• +PxSg1:
  Possessivesuffix singular 1. person
• +PxSg2:
  Possessivesuffix singular 2. person
• +PxSg3:
  Possessivesuffix singular 3. person
• +Qst:
  Question clitic (-)go
• +Qst+Foc/son:
  Question clitic
• +RIGHT:
  Right parenthesis
• +Sg:
  Singular
• +Sg1:
  Singular 1. person
• +Sg2:
  Singular 2. person
• +Sg3:
  Singular 3. person
• +Cmp/Sg:
  Singular compound
• +Cmp/SgGen:
  Singular genitive compound
• +Cmp/SgNom:
  Singular nominative compound
• +Sup:
  Supinum
• +Superl:
  Superlative
• +TV:
  Transitive verb
• +VAbess:
  Verb abessive
• +VGen:
  Verb genitive

Derivational suffix tags

Forthcoming…