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ABIL    abilitative ABL    ablative ABS    absolute ACC    accusative ACD    accidental ACT    actor ACTV    active ADJ    adjective ADV    adverb AF    actor focus AGT    agent (focus) AGR    agreement ALL    allative ANIM    animate ANTIP    antipassive APPL    applicative AOR    aorist ART    article ASP    aspect (marker) ASS    association / associative ATT    attenuation ATTRB    attributive AUX    auxiliary BEN    benefactive CAUS    causative CLF    classifier CIS    cis-locative CLIT    clitic CLEFT    cleft-particle COL    collective COM    commenced COMIT    comitative COMP    complementizer COMPAR    comparative COMPL    completive COMPLM    complement COND    conditional CONJ    conjunction CONT    contemplated CONTIN    continuative COP    copula COSUBORD    cosubordination DAT    dative DECL    declarative DEF    definite DEFOC    defocussing DEL    deletion DEM    demonstrative (pronoun) DERIV    derivational prefix DET    determiner DETRANS    de-transitive DEV    developmental DIM    diminutive DIR    directional, direct DIST    distal DISTR    distributive DU    dual DO    direct object DUR    durative EQU    equation EMPH    emphatic ERG    ergative EVID    evidential EX    existential EXC    excessive EXCEPT    exceptional EXCL    exclusive EXH    exhortative F    feminine FOC    focus (marker) FRUST    frustrative FUT    future GEN    genitive GER    gerund(ive) GOAL    goal (focus) GRP    grouping HAB    habitual HES    hesitative HON    honorific IMIT    imitation IMM    immediate IMP    imperative IMPF    imperfect IMPERS    impersonal IMPFV    imperfective IN    infix INANIM    inanimate INCL    inclusive IND    indicative INDF    indefinite INDIR    indirect INF    infinitive INSTR    instrumental INT    intensive, intensifier INTERJ    interjection INTR    intransitive (verb) INV    inversion, inverse IO    indirect object IRR    irrealis IT    iterative LIMIT    limitation LK    linker LOC    locative MDL    modal verb MED    medial MIR    mirative MOD    moderation M    masculine MSD    Masdar MULT.RECP.    multiple reciprocity N    neuter, neutrum NCOM    noncommenced NECESS    necessitative NEG    negation, negative NF    non finite NFOC    non-focussed NMLZ    nominalizer NOM    nominative NONREF    non-referential NONVOL    nonvolitional NP    noun phrase NT    non-trigger OF    object focus OBJ    object OBL    oblique OBV    obviate OPT    optative PASS    passive PAST    past PAT    patient PEJ    pejorative PERF    perfect PERFV    perfective PL    plural POL    polite POSS    possessive POT    potential PREC    preconditional PRED    predicative PREF    prefix PREP    preposition PREPL    prepositional PRES    present PRET    preterite PRO    pronoun POSS    possessive PROG    progressive PROH    prohibitive PROP    property PROX    proximal / proximate PTCL    particle PTCP    participle PURP    purposive Q    question (marker) QUOT    quotative RC    recent RECP    reciprocal RED    reduplication REFL    reflexive REL    relation, relative REM    remote REPET    repetetive REP    reported RES    resultative RL    realis S    single argument of canonical intransitive verb SAP    speech-act participant SC    status constructus SER    serial SG    singular SIMUL    simultative SPEC    specifier STAT    stative SBJ    subject SUBJV    subjunctive SUBS    substantive SUPERL    superlative SWR    switch referent mood TAG    tag question TEMP    temporal TG    trigger THEME    theme TOP    topic TOT    totality TR    transitive TRANSG    transgressive TRL    translocative UNIQU    uniqueness VOC    vocative VOL    voluntative