in-participle, still a participle?

[AngledLuffa]

A few examples:

indebido
increado
indefinido

[dan-zeman]

Looks similar to bienvenido, i.e., not a participle.

[AngledLuffa]

This does seem like a rather productive prefix. For example, PUD has inapropiado as well, and I don't think there is an inapropriar (although maybe I'm wrong about that)

but if we're saying inapropriado is just an ADJ and not a VerbForm=Part, I can live with that

[dan-zeman]

When I said "similar to bienvenido", I did not mean that in- is as productive as bien-. I meant that it was first a participle but then it was combined with another morph, deriving a new adjective.

[AngledLuffa]

I went through AnCora, and I found the following:

there were four cases where it treated an ADJ as VerbForm=Part if it was based on a verb w/o the in-, namely:

inacabada ← acabar
incontrolados ← controlar
ineducados ← educar
Indocumentado ← documentar

however, there were far more cases of words starting with in- ending with -ado or -ada which did NOT have VerbForm=Part:

inadvertido
incontaminado
incontrolado
indebido
indefinido
indeseado
indiscriminado
indisputado
indocumentado
inexplorado
ininterrumpido
insospechado
intercomunicado
introvertido
inusitado

further, I note "incontrolado" and "indocumentado" showed up in that list. So my guess is there was an actual effort to exclude in- words that did not come from actual verbs, and the four which had VerbForm=Part were simply accidentally swept up in a regex search for -ad[ao]s? words.

and in conclusion, NOT putting VerbForm=Part on "participles" of verbs which don't exist, even if the verb does exist w/o the in-, is the policy AnCora was trying to implement.

Sound correct?

[AngledLuffa]

incidentally, in that list there is two words one word which should have VerbForm=Part, in my estimation:

intercomunicado, introvertido

knowing that it is currently the freeze period, i will make that change in a branch and leave it to your discretion @dan-zeman whether it gets merged now, or in mid-May