ExtPos: external POS
This feature indicates the effective UPOS of a multiword expression when it differs from the UPOS of the first word.
The multiword expressions that use fixed are documented in detail at fixed
ADJ: multiword adjective
Some of these are also adverbs.
Examples
- _air leth - exceptional
- a tuath - north
- an iar - west
ADP: multiword preposition
Examples
- air feadh - throughout
- os cionn - above
- an déidh - after
ADV: multiword adverb
Most of these, according to GOC, are spelt with a hyphen so this covers both obviously compound ones of a preposition and a noun and ones with an a- particle at the beginning spelt without a hyphen.
Examples
- air falbh - away
- a màireach - tomorrow (usually a-màireach)
AUX: multiword auxiliary
Examples
- ’s ann an Ìle rugadh mi - it was in Islay that I was born
CCONJ: multiword coordinator
Examples
- air neo - or
DET: multiword article
Examples
- a h-uile - every
INTJ: multiword interjection
Examples
- ‘N dà
PART: multiword particle
Examples
- na b’ fheàrr - better (in the past)
PRON: multiword pronoun
Examples
- có dhiubh - which of them
- cia mheud - how many
- car son - why (usually a single word)
PROPN: multiword proper noun, usually a title
Examples
- _Théid mi do na h-eileanan, Thairis air na monaidhean_ ‘I shall go to the islands over the moors’, the first line of the song Miann Cridhe. Largs Gaelic Choir have put the lyrics and an English translation online here: =https://largsgaelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Miann-Cridhe.pdf
SCONJ: multiword subordinators
Examples
- ge brith dè - whichever
- air sgàth ‘s - because
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