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Glossing Abbreviations

Abbreviation Meaning Description
A agent grammatical agent
A agent semantic agent (most agent-like argument in a clause)
AL alienable alienable possession
AMB ambulative 'moving, walking'
ART article article in a noun phrase
AUG augmentative
BEN benefactive 'to, for, on behalf of'
CAUS causative 'cause, make'
CIS cislocative motion towards the deictic center (speaker)
CON conative 'try', '[do] at'
CONT continuative 'still'
DEC decessive 'the late'
DIM diminutive
DISTR distributive
DP duo-plural 2+
DU dual 2
ESS essive existence in a state or time
EX exclusive
F feminine
FACIL facilitative 'easily'
FUT future
HAB habitual
HEAR hearsay
IMP imperative
IPFV imperfective incomplete action
IN inclusive
INAL inalienable inalienable possession
INCEP inceptive 'begin'
INCH inchoative 'become'
INDEF indefinite
INSTR instrumental 'by means of'
INT intensive 'very'
INTER interrogative
IRR irrealis
M masculine
MID middle middle voice
N neuter
NAME proper name
NEG negative / negation
NZR nominalizer
OPT optative 'wish, hope'
P patient grammatical patient
P patient semantic patient (most patient-like argument in a clause)
PART partitive
PAST past
PFV perfective completed action ("completive", "aorist")
PL plural
PLEO pleonastic "expletive"
POSS possessive
PROG progressive incomplete action or state in progress
PUNC punctual instantaneous
Q question (marker)
RECIP reciprocal 'each other'
REFL reflexive 'self'
REV reversive 'undo'
SG singular
SJV subjunctive
STAT stative
SUBJ subject
TLOC translocative motion away from the deictic center (speaker)
Z zoic animals