7.1. List of Abbreviations

   
* grammatically unacceptable
- morpheme boundary
. indicates more than one grammatical category per single morpheme
1 first person
2 second person
3 third person
A agglutinative
ABS absolutive case
ACC accusative case
ADJ adjective
ADV adverbial ending
C concatenative
CCG Combinatory Categorial Grammar
CM Construction Morphology
CxG Construction Grammar
COP copula
DET determiner
DM Distributed Morphology
D-structure deep structure
ERG ergative case
F fusional
FUT future tense
GB Government and Binding
GEN genitive case
GPSG Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
HPSG Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
I isolating (traditional morphological type)
ILL illative case
IMPF imperfect (i.e. past tense, imperfective aspect)
IS isolating (phonological fusion)
LFG Lexical Functional Grammar
LI Lexical Integrity
LOC locative case
LV light verb
MASC masculine gender
MP Minimalist Program
NEG negation
NEUT neuter gender
NMZ nominalizer
NOM nominative case
NP noun phrase
OBJ object
P&P Principles and Parameters
PA Parallel Architecture
PAST past tense
PL plural number
PRES present tense
PREVERB preverb
REV reversative
RM Relational Morphology
SBCG Sign-Based Construction Grammar
SG singular number
SMH Split Morphology Hypothesis
S-structure surface structure
SUB subject
SUFF suffix
VP verb phrase
VZR verbalizer
YP a phrasal category headed by some constituent Y