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General information about the language

Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
Language group (Ethnologue top level)

Some syntactic properties of the language

Word order
What is the predominant linear position where affixation appears?
Definite articles
Indicate if the following clause types are or are not found in the language.
Indicative clauses
Infinitive clauses
Subjunctive clauses
Small clauses
Other clause types

++ -- Anaphoric marker

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Name
Description

Morphological information

Exponent position
Marker morphology
Exporent complexity type
Glossed breakdown
Exponent source has a literal meaning
Semantic Atom Type
Comments

Anaphoric Marker Agreement

Agreement
What features of the antecedent is there agreement with?
Agreement paradigm
Antecedent agreement distribution
Modification agreement
What features of the modified element does the marker agree with?
Modification agreement features
Give the agreement paradigm for modification agreement, referring to example sentences if necessary. Explain.
Modification agreement distribution

Anaphoric Marker Antecedent properties

Special types of antecedent
Restrictions on person, number or gender of the antecedent
Possible antecedents
Subject
Direct object
Indirect object
Prepositional object
Possessor
The structural and semantic properties of the antecedent nominal

Anaphoric Marker Locality

Locality
Is there any antecedent in the domain of this marker that is too close to be an antecedent for it?
Intervention effects

Anaphoric Markers Predicate Compatibility

Applies to non-verbal predicates
Useable with verb classes
Non-symmetric (general transitive)
Symmetric (social interaction: talking, loving, fighting)
Asymmetric
Grooming
Body attitude verb
Stative
Psych verb
Epistemic verb
Verb of saying
Desiderative verb
Perception verb
Can this marker be used with adjectival predicates? If yes, give some examples.

Readings for anaphoric markers

Does this anaphoric Marker allow more than one anaphoric reading?
Used in idioms
Anaphoric relation type
If this marker requires an inherent reading, what reading does it require?
inherent readings
Distributivity
Reciprocal reading types
Proxy readings
Proxy Readings1
Self-knowledge

Pronominal properties

Is the anaphoric marker a pronoun? A pronoun is a nominal consisting only of nominal features that does not require a sentence internal antecedent.
Is the pronoun strong, weak, or affixal (or clitic)?
Strength
Can the pronoun have any featurally compatible antecedent, or are there antecedents that are 'too local' to be coconstrued with the pronoun?
Antilocality
Does the pronoun indicate grammatical function in opposition to some other pronominal marker? Answer 'no' if the pronominal paradigm of this marker does not distinguish between subjects and non-subjects. If the language has a case-marking system, this answer is always yes, but this question is also designed to discover if there is a grammatical function distinction where it is not obvious there is any other reason to posit a casemarking system.
true/false
What exponent properties, like person, number, case, gender and/or animacy are morphologically distinguished within this paradigm?
Exponent expression
Does the use of this pronoun require an interpretation whereby the antecedent of the pronoun (sentence internal or, less often, present in discourse) is the one whose statement or perspective is being expressed?

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Sentence Id
Original text
Morphemic tier
Gloss
Translation

All Project Sentence Properties

ASP this sentence was collected for
Describe any context provided when this sentence was elicited.
Semantic verb class
Does the predicate have any arguments in addition to a clausal argument?
What is the argument position of the clausal argument(s)?
What is the relation between the matrix and the immediately subordinate clause?
Verb Diathesis Type
What is the force of this sentence, i.e., the role it plays in discourse by virtue of its structure?
Related sentences
Follow-up needed for missing information
Consultant's comments

Anaphora Project Sentence Properties

Prompt sentence
Other anaphoric marker
What non-subject position is the antecedent in?
If the dependent is not a direct object, what sort of nominal argument is it?
If the dependent is not an object or prepositional object, what sort of a phrase is it embedded in ? (E.g., The dependent may be in a phrase subordinate to the one that contains its antecedent.)
Dependent in subordinated phrase
What are the nominal properties of the antecedent?
Does the sentence permit a proxy reading for the marker employed?
Proxy readings