Flex It

Database of token frequencies of 71954 Italian word forms (33637 noun types and 38317 adjective types), annotated for morphological inflection, gender, number, inflectional class.

Contents

Please see the Documentation for more information about the database.

Lists

• Flex It - Nouns.
• Flex It - Adjectives.

Code

Code used to build the annotated databases and its descriptive stats and graphs.

References

The Flex It resources are freely available; please acknowledge their use by referring to:

• Pescuma, V. N. & Zanini, C., Crepaldi, D., Franzon, F. (2021) "Form and function: a study on the distribution of the inflectional endings in Italian nouns and adjectives." - Available here.

Flex It is based on these lists of nouns and adjectives.
The lists were obtained from data from Morph-It! (Zanchetta & Baroni, 2005) and ItWac (Baroni, Bernardini, Ferraresi & Zanchetta, 2009).

Front image credits:
"Flex It v1 Cover Image"[1] was adapted from A. Vesalius, "De humani corporis fabrica, Book II, Table X"[2].
[1] Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 @franfranz, [2] Licensed CC BY 4.0, From Wikimedia Commons