Formsopisujcy

Formsopisujcy, sometimes written with diacritics as formopisujący, is a term used to describe the agent—human or software—that records and analyzes the surface forms of words in a language. The word is formed from the Polish roots forma (form) and opisujący (describing), yielding a label for the role or function of describing linguistic forms. In practical use, a formsopisujcy represents the component or person responsible for documenting how words appear in text and how those appearances relate to underlying grammatical properties.

In linguistic work, a formsopisujcy collects data about word forms, including orthography, phonological representation, lemmas, and a range of morphosyntactic features such as part of speech, gender, number, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, and other inflectional or derivational attributes. The concept is closely tied to corpus linguistics and lexicography, where accurate annotation of word forms supports searching, tagging, and morphological analysis. A formsopisujacy may function as a manual annotator, a contribution by a linguist, or an automated software component within an annotation pipeline.

The term is not widely standardized as a formal profession or established field, but it appears in discussions of annotation workflows and linguistic data infrastructure. Core challenges associated with the role include handling language-specific morphology, disambiguating ambiguous forms, ensuring consistency across datasets, and integrating form data with lemmas and syntactic or semantic annotations.

See also: morphology, inflection, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, morphological annotation, corpus linguistics.