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toegewezenHet

ToegewezenHet is a term used in a hypothetical or speculative linguistics framework to denote the assignment of the neuter definite article het to a noun in particular grammatical contexts. The construction combines the Dutch word toegewezen, meaning assigned, with het, the neuter definite article. In this framework, a noun phrase may carry an assigned article as part of a theoretical model for article determination and agreement.

Origins and usage in the hypothetical framework are not part of standard Dutch grammar. The term is

In practice, toegewezenHet can be used to annotate corpora or to design experiments in natural language processing

See also: definite article, grammatical gender, Dutch article usage, corpus annotation, computational linguistics.

employed
in
discussions
of
theoretical
analyses,
annotation
schemes,
and
computational
models
that
explore
how
definite
articles
might
be
allocated
in
discourse
or
algorithmic
processing.
It
serves
as
a
label
rather
than
a
prescriptive
rule,
used
to
distinguish
neuter-article
assignment
from
other
patterns
such
as
de-article
usage.
and
language
education.
For
example,
in
an
annotated
dataset,
a
noun
phrase
might
be
tagged
with
toegewezenHet
to
indicate
that,
in
that
context,
the
neuter
article
het
is
assigned.
Conversely,
a
noun
phrase
tagged
as
toegewezenDe
would
indicate
assignment
of
the
de
article.
These
labels
are
hypothetical
and
are
intended
to
support
analysis
of
article
distribution
rather
than
reflect
formal
grammar.