## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <particDesc>

`<particDesc>` | (participation description) describes the identifiable speakers, voices, or other participants in a linguistic interaction.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declarable

Example

    <particDesc>
       <person id="p1" sex="f" age="42">
          <p>Female informant, well-educated, born in Shropshire
    UK, 12 Jan 1950, of unknown occupation.
    Speaks French fluently. Socio-Economic status B2.</p>
       </person>
       <person id="p2" sex="m" age="43"/>
       <particLinks>
          <relation type="personal" desc="spouse" active="p1 p2" mutual="Y"/>
       </particLinks>
    </particDesc>

Module | Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Class | declarable
Data Description | May contain a prose description organized as paragraphs, or a structured list of persons and person groups, with an optional formal specification of any relationships amongst them.
May contain | p particLinks person personGrp
May occur within | profileDesc

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT particDesc %om.RO; ( p+ |
                        ( (person | personGrp)+, particLinks? ) ) >
    <!ATTLIST particDesc
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;>

See further | 23.2 Contextual Information; 5.4 The Profile Description; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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