flat:foreign
: flat phrase without a clear head, subcategory foreign words
We use flat:foreign
to label sequences of foreign words. These are given a linear analysis: the head is the first token in the foreign phrase.
flat:foreign
does not apply to loanwords or to foreign names. It applies to quoted foreign text incorporated in a sentence/discourse of the host language (unless we want to and know how to annotate the internal structure according to the syntax of the foreign language).
flat:foreign in other languages: [cs] [en] [fr] [ga] [gd] [it] [ka] [kpv] [no] [pl] [ru] [tr] [u] [vi]