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direction of transitivity or possession (2›3 may mean 2 acts on 3; 1sg›sg may mean a 1sg possessor and a singular possessum)
0
zero (null), covert form (such as gender in a language where the word doesn't show it)
1
first person
2
second person
3
third person
A
agent-like argument of canonical transitive verb
ABE
abessive case (AKA caritive case or privative case: 'without')
ABL
ablative case ('from')
ABS
absolutive case
ACC
accusative case
ACCOM
accompanier
ACT
active voice, actor role
ADJ
adjective
ADE
adessive case ('at'; more specific than LOC)
ADM
admonitive mood (warning)
ADV
adverb(ial), adverbial case
AFF
affirmative mood
AG, AGT
agentive case (cf ACT)
AGR
agreement
ALL
allative case ('to')
AL, ALLOC
allocutive agreement
ALIEN
alienable possession
AN
animate gender (cf R)
AND
andative (going towards: cf venitive)
ANT
anterior (used for PRF in some traditions)
ANTE
antessive case ('before')
ANTIC
anticausative
ANTIP, AP
antipassive voice
AOR
aorist (= PST.PFV)
AP, ANTIP
antipassive voice
APP
apposition
APL, APPL
applicative voice
APPR
apprehensive mood
APRX
approximative
ART
article
ASP
aspect
ASS
associative case (= COM), assumptive mood, assertive
AT
agent trigger (= AV agent voice)
ATT
attenuative; attributive (= ATTR)
AUD
auditory evidential
AUG
augmentative
AUX
auxiliary verb
B
core benefactive
BE
be' verb (a conflation of EXIST and COP)
BEN
benefactive case ('for')
C
common gender
CAP
(cap)ability, modal case
CAU, CAUS
causative
CENT
centric case
CF
counterfactual conditional
CIRC
circumfix
CIT
citation form
CL, CLF
classifier
CNJ
conjunction (= CONJ)
CNSQ
consequential
COL
collective plural
COM
comitative case ('together with')
COMP
comparative; complementizer
COMPL, CPL
completive aspect
CONC
concessive
COND
conditional mood
CONJ
conjunction (= CNJ)
CONN
connective particle
CONT, CTN
continuative aspect
CNTR
contrastive
COP
copula
COR
coreference
CRAS
crastinal tense ('tomorrow')
CRS
current relevance marker (as in the perfect)
CVB
converb
D
core dative case
DAT
dative case
DE
different event, change of event (cf DS)
DEC, DECL
declarative mood
DEF
definite
DEI, DEIX
deixis, deictic
DEL
delayed imperative (a command to do s.t. later)
DEL
delative case ('off of'), deliberative mood
DEM
demonstrative
DEO
deontic mood
DEP
dependent (as in DEP.FUT)
DES, DESI
desiderative mood
DEST
destinative aspect
DET
determiner
DETR
detransitive
DH
motion downhill, seaward (cf DR)
DIM
diminutive
DIR
direct evidential (= EXP); directional (= LAT); direct case
DISJ
disjunction
DIST
distal demonstrative
DISTR
distributive case
DITR
ditransitive
DLM
delimited
DM
discourse marker
DO
direct object
DR
motion downriver (cf DH)
DS
different-subject (change of subject) marker (cf DE)
DU
dual number
DUB
dubitative mood
DUR
durative aspect, continuous aspect
DY, DYAD
dyadic
DYN
dynamic aspect
E
epenthetic morpheme
-E
(used to form various -essive cases)
ELA
elative case ('out of')
EMP
emphatic
EPIS
epistemic mood, epistemic modality
ERG
ergative case
ESS
essive case
EV, EVID
evidential
EVIT
evitative case (= aversive case)
EX, EXCL
exclusive person
EXCLAM
exclamative
EX.DUR
excessive duration
EXIST
existential ('there is')
EXO
exocentric case
EXP, EXPER
experiential, eyewitness, = direct evidential
EXPL
expletive (dummy / meaningless form)
F, FEM
feminine gender
FACT
factive evidential
FAM
familiar register (as the T-V distinction)
FIN
finite verb
FOC
focus
FORM
formal register (as the T-V distinction)
FP
final particle (joshi)
FR, FREQ
frequentative aspect
FMR
former, deceased
FUT
future tense
G
gender (G4 = 4th gender)
GEN
genitive case
GER
gerund
GNO
gnomic tense (generic mood)
GT
goal trigger (Austronesian; = GV goal voice)
HAB
habitual aspect
HBL
humble register
HEST
hesternal tense ('yesterday')
HIST
historic(al), as in historical present or past historic tense
HOD
hodiernal tense ('today')
HON
honorific
HORT
hortative,
HSY
hearsay, reported evidential
HUM
human, anthropic gender (cf. HBL; R)
HYP
hypothetical mood
I
inflected
ID
identical (~ NID)
IDENTIF
identifiable
IDEO
ideophone (≈ MIM)
IGNOR
ignorative
ILL
illative case ('into')
IMM
immediate, as in immediate imperative mood, near future tense
IMP
imperative mood
IMPERF
imperfect (= PST.IPFV)
IMPREC
imprecative mood
IMPRS
impersonal verb
IN, INCL
inclusive person
INAL
inalienable possession
INAN
inanimate gender
INCH, INCHO, INCEP
inchoative aspect, inceptive aspect
INCL
inclusive person (= IN)
IND
indicative mood
INDF, NDEF
indefinite
INE
inessive case ('in')
INF
infinitive
INFER, INFR
inferential evidential
INEL
inelative case ('from within')
INS
instrumental case
INT
intensifier; interrogative (= Q)
INTEN
intentional
INTR, NTR
intransitive (covers an intransitive case for the S argument)
INV
inverse
IO
indirect object
IPFV
imperfective aspect (= NPFV)
IRR
irrealis mood
IS
indirect speech
ITER
iterative aspect
JUS
jussive mood
-L
(used to form various -lative cases)
L2
second language (code-switching)
LAT
lative case (= MVMT, direction)
LD
locative case + directional
LK
linker
LOC
locative case (includes essive case)
LOG
logophoric
M, MASC
masculine gender
MAN
manner
MID
middle voice
MIM
mimetic (≈ IDEO)
MIR
(ad)mirative
MOD
mood, modal, modal case
MOM
single action verb (not iterative)
MVT
movement
N, NEUT
neuter gender
N-
non- (e.g. NSG non-singular, NPST non-past, NF non-feminine)
NEG
negation, negative
NH
non-human
NMZ, NZ, NOMI
nominalizer/nominalization
NOM
nominative case
NS
non-subject (Latin 'oblique' case)
NTR, INTR
intransitive (covers an intransitive case for the S argument)
NUM
numeral
OBJ, OB
object
OBL
oblique case
OBV
obviative
OPT
optative mood
P
patient-like argument of canonical transitive verb
P
pre-, post- (P.HOD prehodiernal)
PART
participle (= PTCP,PCP); particle (= PTCL); partitive case (= PTV)
PAS, PASS
passive voice
PAT
patientive (= UND)
PA, PAU
paucal number
PEG
pegative case (a special case for the giver)
PER
perlative case ('per', using)
PERF, PRF
perfect aspect
PERS
personal
PFV
perfective aspect
PL
plural
PLU, PLUR
pluractional
PM
phrase marker, predicate marker
PN, PRO
pronoun
PO
primary object
POL
polite register
POS, POSS
possessive marker
POST
postposition, postpositional case
POSTE
postessive case ('after')
POT
potential mood (a possible conditional)
PP
past / passive participle
PPP
past passive participle
PPFV
past perfective
PR
proper noun
PRED
predicative
PREC
precative mood (requests)
PREP
preposition, prepositional case
PRES, PRS
present tense
PRESP
present participle
PRET, PRT
preterite (= PFV.PST)
PRF, PERF
perfect aspect (= ANT)
PRS, PRES
present tense
PROB
probability
PROG
progressive aspect
PROH
prohibitive mood ('don't!')
PROL
prolative case (= VIA)
PROT
protasis
PROX
proximal/proximate
PST
past tense
PT
patient trigger
PTCL, PTC
particle
PTCP,PCP
participle
PTV
partitive case ('some of')
PURP
purposive
Q
question word or particle (= INT)
QUOT
quotative case (marks quoted speech)
R
rational gender (thinking beings)
REAL
realis mood
REC
recent past tense
RECP
reciprocal voice
REF
referential
REFL
reflexive voice
REL
relative(izer)
REM
remote past tense
REP
reported evidential (= HSY); repetitive (cf ITER)
RES
resultative; resumptive
RFR
referential
S
single argument of canonical intransitive verb (cf CIT)
SBJ, SUB
subject
SBJV, SJV
subjunctive mood
SE
same event (cf SS)
SEM
semelfactive aspect ('once')
SENS
sensory evidential mood (= VIS+AUD
SEQ
sequential
SG
singular (but 1.SG = 1s, 3MASC.SG = 3ms)
SGV
singulative number
SIM
simultaneous aspect; similative
SJV, SBJV
subjunctive mood
SPEC
specifier; speculative mood
SS
same-subject (cf SE)
STAT, STV
stative aspect, stative verb
SUB, SU
subject
SUBR, SUBORD, SBRD, SR
subordinator
SUBE
subessive case ('under')
SUBL
sublative case ('onto', 'down onto')
SUP(L)
superlative (SUPL); supine; supplicative
SUPE
superessive case ('on')
-T
trigger (used for AT, PT)
TAM
tense, aspect, or mood
TEL
telic aspect (cf PFV)
TEMP
temporal case
TERM
terminative case
TNS
tense
TOP
topic
TR, TRANS
transitive verb
TRANSL
translative case (becoming)
TRI
trial number
TRN
trans-numeral (neither SGnor PL)
TVF
truth-value focus
U
uninflected
UH
motion uphill, inland (cf UR)
UND
undergoer role (cf PAT)
UR
motion upriver (cf UH)
USIT
usitative
V, VB
verb(al)
VBZ
verbalizer
VD
verb, ditransitive
VEN
venitive (coming towards; cf andative)
VER
veridical mood (a certain conditional)
VIA
vialis case
VIS
visible, visual
VI
verb, intransitive
VN
verbal noun
VOC
vocative case
VOL
volitive mood
VT
verb, transitive
WH.Q
Wh-question
-Z
-(al)izer (e.g. TRZ transitivizer)
ZO
zoic gender (animals)