Abbreviations
Abbreviations in morpheme-by-morpheme glosses to song-texts
Each of the following abbreviations represents a morpheme (chunk of meaning). The morpheme-by-morpheme glosses consist of ordered strings of morphemes, each separated by a period; some morphemes are bundles of more than one chunk of meaning. For definition of terms, see chapter3.
| Ø | Zero |
| 1 | First person |
| 1/2 | First person inclusive of addressee |
| 2 | Second person |
| 3 | Third person |
| AUG | Augmented |
| A | Agent of transitive verb |
| ABL | Ablative case marker |
| ADVERS | Adversative |
| ANAPH | Anaphoric |
| BEN | Benefactive |
| CAUS | Causative |
| CONT | Continuant |
| DAT | Dative |
| DEIC | Deictic |
| DTOP | Different topic |
| EXCL | Exclusive of addressee |
| F | Female |
| FUL | Full of |
| INC | Inclusive of addressee |
| IO | Indirect Object |
| IR | Irrealis |
| LOC | Locative |
| M | Masculine |
| MIN | Minimal |
| NEG | Negator |
| NC | Noun Classifier |
| O | Direct Object |
| PERF | Perfective |
| POSS | Possessive |
| PRES | Present Tense |
| PRO | Pronoun |
| PURP | Purposive |
| R | Realis |
| REDUP | Reduplicated |
| REFL | Reflexive |
| S | Subject of intransitive verb |
| S/A | Form is identical for Subject or Agent |
| SIM | Simultaneous |
| SW | Songword |
| TOP | Topic |
| UAUG | Augmented by one |