Abbreviations
The following abbreviations appear in the monograph. References to authors and works are abbreviated in the footnotes and tables only. The glossing system adheres to the Leipzig Glossing Rules.
| ABS |
Absolutive case (in ergative languages) |
| ACC |
Accusative case |
| AcI |
Accusative-and-infinitive structure |
| ACT |
Active voice |
| ADV |
Adverb / Adverbial phrase |
| Ana. |
Anabasis (by Xenophon) |
| And. |
Andocides, De Mysteriis |
| Anti. |
Antiphon |
| ANTIPASS |
Antipassive (in ergative languages) |
| AOR |
Aorist tense |
| Arist. |
Aristotle |
| ARTP |
Articular phrase |
| ATT |
Attributive phrase |
| AUX |
Auxiliary |
| Clearch. |
Clearchus, Fragments |
| CONJ |
Conjunction |
| De resp |
De respiratione (by Aristotle) |
| Dem. |
Demosthenes |
| dirO |
Direct Object |
| DOM |
Direct-Object Marker |
| DP |
Determiner phrase |
| ERG |
Ergative case (in ergative languages) |
| ess |
essential (relative clause) |
| Eun. |
Eunapius |
| Eur. |
Euripides |
| GEN |
Genitive case |
| Gorg. |
Gorgias (by Plato) |
| Hdt. |
Herodotus |
| HE |
Head-external (relative clause) |
| Hell. |
Hellenica (by Xenophon) |
| Mem. |
Memorabilia (by Xenophon) |
| HI |
Head-internal (relative clause) |
| Hist. |
Histories |
| Hist. anim. |
Historia animalium (by Aristotle) |
| Hld. |
Heliodorus, Aethiopica |
| HREL |
Headless relative clause |
| IND |
Indicative mood |
| indO |
Indirect Object |
| indSp |
Indirect speech |
| INF |
Infinitive mood |
| INSTR |
Instrumental case |
| Isae. |
Isaeus |
| Isoc. |
Isocrates |
| ITJ |
Interjection |
| ITR |
Interrogative |
| Iug. |
The Jugurthine War (by Sallust) |
| LADL |
Laboratoire d’automatique documentaire et linguistique |
| LFG |
Lexical-Functional Grammar |
| LSJ |
Liddell-Scott Jones |
| LXX Ma. |
Septuagint, Machabaeorum |
| Lys. |
Lysias |
| MCP |
Main-Clause Phenomenon |
| MID |
Middle voice |
| MWE |
Multi-Word Expression |
| n-ess |
non-essential (relative clause) |
| NEG |
Negative |
| NOM |
Nominative case |
| NP |
Noun phrase |
| NPI |
Negative-Polarity Item |
| O |
Object |
| OG |
Objective Genitive |
| OPT |
Optative mood |
| PART |
Partitive case |
| PASS |
Passive voice |
| PAST |
Past tense (Chapter 6 on Oriya) |
| Phae. |
Phaedrus (by Plato) |
| pl |
Plural |
| Pl. |
Plato |
| PLP |
Pluperfect tense |
| PN |
Predicative noun |
| Pol. |
Politics (by Aristotle) |
| PP |
Prepositional phrase |
| PRS |
Present tense |
| PRF |
Perfect tense |
| PRFI |
Perfect I (Coptic) |
| PRFII |
Perfect II (Coptic) |
| PRN |
Pronoun |
| PRNP |
Pronominal phrase |
| PRT |
Particle |
| Prt. |
Protagoras (by Plato) |
| PSP |
Pseudo-Participle (Classical Egyptian) |
| PTCP |
Participle mood |
| REL |
Relative clause |
| Rep. |
Republic (by Plato) |
| Rhet. |
Rhetoric (by Aristotle) |
| S |
Subject |
| SBJV |
Subjunctive |
| sg |
singular |
| Soph. |
Sophocles |
| SV |
Support verb |
| SVC |
Support-verb construction |
| Thuc. |
Thucydides |
| TLG |
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae |
| Tr. |
Trachiniae (by Sophocles) |
| VA1 |
Verbal adjective, type one (ability, possibility) |
| VP |
Verb phrase |
| VRel |
Verb of realisation |
| WIMPF |
Waw-Imperfect (Hebrew) |
| Xen. |
Xenophon |