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174. Abbreviations and Glossing-Symbol Conventions

What abbreviations, morpheme-boundary symbols, and notation conventions are used in interlinear glosses, and how are divergent source conventions reconciled?

インターリニア・グロスで用いられる略号、形態素境界記号、注記の慣例は何か。また、出典による異なる慣例はどのように調整されるのか。

The tables of interlinear-gloss abbreviations, morpheme-boundary symbols, and notation conventions used in the grammar, with a concordance reconciling divergent conventions across the source literature.

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Morpheme boundary symbols and the interlinear format 14 sentences· 1 examples

How are morpheme boundaries and the three lines of interlinear examples (segmentation, gloss, translation) represented?

ku=ray-ke
1SG.A=die-CAUS
‘I kill (something).’
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Gloss abbreviation inventory 4 sentences

What grammatical-category abbreviations appear in gloss lines, and how is their inventory validated?

Notes on role labels A, S, and O 3 sentences

How do the role labels A, S, and O function, and how do they reflect the mixed alignment of the person paradigm?

Notes on the fourth person 4 sentences

How is the fourth person glossed, and when is INDEF used instead of a form-class label?

Notes on POSS, ANTIP, AUTOC, ANTIC, and MID 10 sentences

What phenomena does POSS gloss, and how does it relate to the affiliative/possessed suffix and the Japanese tradition?

Notes on evidential labels 3 sentences

What evidential labels are used (INFR, REP, PERS, EVID) and how do they map onto the evidential construction?

Dialect and locality labels 7 sentences

How are dialect and locality tags assigned to interlinear examples, and what is their closed set?

Notation conventions 4 sentences

What conventional marks appear outside the three-line gloss, and what is the primary writing system for Ainu forms?

Cross-source glossing concordance 11 sentences

How does the grammar reconcile divergent glossing conventions found across English- and Japanese-medium sources?