Abbreviations and Symbols
Abbreviations
| A |
Agent = subject of transitive |
| Ar. |
Arabic |
| ben |
beneficiary |
| BK |
Bahdini (Northern) Kurdish |
| C. |
Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect |
| cop |
copula |
| cp |
common plural |
| deix |
deictic |
| dem |
demonstrative |
| dist |
distal |
| exist |
existential |
| fem |
feminine |
| fs |
feminine singular |
| fut |
future tense |
| g |
Goal |
| _H, H. |
(Modern) Hebrew |
| imp |
imperative |
| inf |
infinitive |
| inv |
invariable |
| irr |
irrealis mood |
| j. |
Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect |
| ld |
Lishana Deni Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic |
| let |
jussive particle |
| masc |
masculine |
| ms |
masculine singular |
| must |
particle of obligation |
| N |
noun |
| neg |
negation |
| NENA |
North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic |
| nr |
near |
| O |
Object (Patient of monotransitive and Theme of ditransitive) |
| obl |
oblique |
| P |
Patient = object of monotransitive |
| Part. |
Particle |
| Pron. |
pronoun |
| perf |
past perfective |
| pl |
common plural |
| pst |
past |
| prog |
progressive |
| R |
Recipient of ditransitive |
| real |
realis mood |
| res |
resultative participle |
| S |
Subject = subject of intransitive |
| sg |
singular |
| subr |
subordinating conjunction |
| T |
Theme of ditransitive |
| trans. |
transitive |
| TZ |
Trans-Zab Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic |
| V |
verb |
Symbols
| < |
derived from, ranks lower than |
| > |
developed into, ranks higher than |
| * |
reconstructed form |
| ** |
ungrammatical form |
| ∅ |
zero morpheme or phoneme |
| [] |
morpheme-level and phonetic representation |
| // |
phonological/underlying morphological representation |
| 3,2,1 |
person |
| p |
statistical significance |
| Patt. |
verbal pattern (traditionally: verbal stem, verbal derivation) |