Appendix A
                      Lexicographers' Files



noun.Tops                unique beginners for nouns
noun.act                 nouns denoting acts or actions
noun.animal              nouns denoting animals
noun.artifact            nouns denoting man-made objects
noun.attribute           nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
noun.body                nouns denoting body parts
noun.cognition           nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
noun.communication       nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
noun.event               nouns denoting natural events
noun.feeling             nouns denoting feelings and emotions
noun.food                nouns denoting foods and drinks
noun.group               nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
noun.location            nouns denoting spatial position
noun.motive              nouns denoting goals
noun.object              nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
noun.person              nouns denoting people
noun.phenomenon          nouns denoting natural phenomena
noun.plant               nouns denoting plants
noun.possession          nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
noun.process             nouns denoting natural processes
noun.quantity            nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
noun.relation            nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
noun.shape               nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
noun.state               nouns denoting stable states of affairs
noun.substance           nouns denoting substances
noun.time                nouns denoting time and temporal relations

verb.body             verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
verb.change           verbs of change of size, temperature, intensity, etc.
verb.cognition        verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting, etc.
verb.communication    verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing, etc.
verb.competition      verbs of fighting, athletic activities, etc.
verb.consumption      verbs of eating and drinking
verb.contact          verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging, etc.
verb.creation         verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing, etc.
verb.emotion          verbs of feeling
verb.motion           verbs of walking, flying, swimming, etc.
verb.perception       verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling, etc.
verb.possession       verbs of buying, selling, owning, and transfer
verb.social           verbs of political and social activities and events
verb.stative          verbs of being, having, spatial relations
verb.weather          verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering, etc.

adj.all               all adjective clusters
adj.pert              relational adjectives (pertainyms)

adv.all               all adverbs