Abbreviations
| 1 | first person, ‘I’, ‘we’ |
| 2 | second person 'you' singular or plural |
| 3 | Third person 'he', 'she', 'it', 'they' |
| Adv_Pred0 | Adverb occurring after the verb but before the Object |
| Adv_Pred1 | Adverb occurring after the Object, but before any other peripheral constituents in the clause |
| Adv_PredP | Adverb occurring among or after the peripheral constituents in the clause |
| Adv_PrePredP | Adverb occurring immediately before the verb or nonverbal predicate (could also be viewed as a modal auxiliary) |
| Adv_QuantP | Adverb that modifies quantifiers |
| Adv_S | Sentence final adverb |
| alt. | alternate form |
| cf | cross reference |
| comp | compound |
| conj | conjunction |
| construction: | Construction or syntactic frame in which an item occurs |
| def. | Vernacular definition or other comments about the item |
| dem. | Demonstrative |
| Dem. Pro. | Demonstrative pronoun |
| det. | determiner |
| dial. var. | Dialectal variant, form used by another dialect |
| EXC | 'we’ with hearer excluded |
| Gen Suf | Genitive suffixes occurring on inalienable nouns indicating person and number of the possessor |
| INC | ‘we’ with the hearer included |
| Intj | Interjection |
| N | Noun |
| N Ev | Event noun |
| N Inal | Inalienable noun |
| N Inal Comp | Inalienable Compound Noun |
| N Inal_Ev | Inalienable event noun |
| N Inal Stative | Stative Inalienable Noun |
| N Inal Stative Ev | Stative Inalienable Noun Event |
| N Proper | Proper noun |
| N Stat | Stative Noun |
| Non Suf | Nominal Suffix |
| opposite: | words having the opposite or nearly opposite meaning, antonyms |
| Opt. Inflected | Optionally inflected verb |
| PL | Plural marker |
| Pref | Transitivity-altering prefix occurring on verbs |
| Prep | Preposition |
| Pro | Prnoun |
| Pronoun formative | The third person singular suffix –ni that occurs in some pronouns |
| Quantifier | Quantifiers (both numerals and non-numeric quantifiers) |
| SG | Singular number |
| similar: | words that are very similar in meaning, synonyms |
| sfx | suffix |
| Subject prefix | Subject prefix occurring on inflected verbs that indicates person and number of the Subject |
| Suffix construction | The construction in which the lexical item normally occurs |
| syn: | Synomym |
| unspec. comp. form | unspecified complex form |
| V_Intr | Intransitive verb |
| V_Intr_Uninfl | Uninflected intransitive verb, which does not take the Subject prefixes |
| V_Intr/Tr | Verb that can be either intransitive or transitive |
| V_Middle | Verb whose Subject and Object are obligatorily coreferential |
| V_Middle/Tr | Verb that can be either transitive or middle |
| V_Middle/Tr_UninflG | Verb that can be either transitive or middle and which does not take the Subject prefixes |
| V_Middle_Uninfl | Verb whose Subject and Object are obligatorily coreferential and which does not take the Subject prefixes |
| V_Scomp | Verb taking a sentential complement |
| V_Tr | Transitive verb |
| V_Tr_Uninfl | Transitive verb that does not take the Subject prefixes |
| Serial verb | Verb commonly occurring in serialised constructions |
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