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Wordforms

Wordforms are units analyzed as grammatical words in a given language. Although there has been some discussion as to the universality of such a concept, it is useful for the description of many languages. The morphological segmentation of wordforms is stored in the Morpho_Segments column via an association table. Stem_ID optionally references a stem of which a wordform is an inflected form; wordforms are also connected to stems via wordformstems.

WordformTable: wordforms.csv

Name/Property Datatype Cardinality Description
ID string

A unique identifier for a row in a table.

To allow usage of identifiers as path components of URLs IDs must only contain alphanumeric characters, underscore and hyphen.


Primary key
Language_ID string A reference to a language (or variety) the form belongs to
Form string The written expression of the form.
Description string A human-readable description
Part_Of_Speech string

The part-of-speech of dictionary entry.


References partsofspeech.csv.
Parameter_ID list of string (separated by ;) A reference to the meaning denoted by the form
Morpho_Segments list of string (separated by ) A representation of the morphologically segmented form.
Stem_ID string The stem of which this wordform is an inflected form.
References stems.csv.
Segments list of string (separated by )

A list of segments (aka a sound sequence) is understood as the strict segmental representation of a form unit of a language, which is usually given in phonetic transcription. Suprasegmental elements, like tone or accent, of sound sequences are usually represented in a sequential form, although they are usually co-articulated along with the segmental elements of a sound sequence. Alternatively, suprasegmental aspects could also be represented as part of the prosodic structure of a word form.

Comment string

A human-readable comment on a resource, providing additional context.

Source list of string (separated by ;)

List of source specifications, of the form <source_ID>[], e.g. http://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/318814[34], or meier2015[3-12] where meier2015 is a citation key in the accompanying BibTeX file.