PunctType: punctuation type
| Values: | Brck | Colo | Comm | Dash | Elip | Excl | Peri | Qest | Quot | Semi | Slsh |
Many tagsets have just one tag for punctuation. Others classify punctuation in more detail.
Peri: period at the end of sentence or clause
Examples
- [es] ¿Por qué? -, se pregunta. “Why? – she wonders.”
Elip: ellipsis
Examples
- [pl] Nie wiem, dlaczego ją wybrałem… “I don’t know why I chose her …”
Qest: question mark
Examples
- [es] ¿Por qué? -, se pregunta. “Why? – she wonders.”
Excl: exclamation mark
Examples
- [es] ¡Fijese en la lectura racista de la Sirenita!. “Notice the racist reading of the Little Mermaid!”
Quot: quotation marks (various sorts in various languages)
Examples
- [es] El experto reconoció que estaba ”preocupado” “The expert acknowledged that he was “concerned””
Brck: bracket
Examples
- [es] Ejército del Sur del Líbano (ELS) “South Lebanon Army (SLA)”
Comm: comma
Examples
- [es] ¿Por qué? -, se pregunta. “Why? – she wonders.”
Colo: colon
Examples
- [es] La mejor defensa: La postura española. “The best defense: The Spanish position.”
Semi: semicolon
Examples
- [es] Las distancias son largas; las esperas, desesperantes. “The distances are long; the waiting desperate.”
Dash: dash, hyphen
Examples
- [es] ¿Por qué? -, se pregunta. “Why? – she wonders.”
Slsh: slash or backslash
Examples
- [pl] Zaczynała w RSC w połowie lat 60., grając pacjentkę szpitala dla obłąkanych w „Marat/Sade”. “She started out at the RSC in the mid-Sixties playing an asylum-inmate in Marat/Sade.”
PunctType in other languages: [el] [es] [ka] [u] [uk]