ciw

Authors

Divvun and Giellatekno teams, community members

Software version

2012

Documentation license

GNU GFDL

SVN Revision

$Revision:68217 $

SVN Date

$Date:2013-01-16 11:31:33 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jan 2013) $

This is free and open source Chippewa morphology.

Ojibwe postpositions

POS

• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©

Verbal MSP

• +Prs
• +Fut
• +Prt
• +Prf

• +Ind
• +Imp Imperative
• +Sbj Subjunctive
• +Imm Immediate,

• +Int Interdiction,
• +Dur Durative

• +1Sg first singular
• +2Sg etc
• +3Sg
• +3oSg 3o is obviative,
• +3iSg 3i is indefinite

• +1Pl 1Pl is exclusive plural (I, them, not you)
• +2Pl
• +3Pl
• +3oPl
• +3iPl
• +12Pl 12Pl is inclusive plural (I, you, ...)

• +1SgO objective conjugation
• +2SgO
• +3SgO
• +SgO
• +3oSgO obviative with objective conjugation
• +3iSgO
• +1PlO
• +P2lO
• +3PlO
• +PlO
• +3oPlO
• +3iPlO

• +Inf infinitive (infinite?)
• +Pos postitive
• +Neg negative
• +ConNeg accompanying negative form

Nominal MSP

• +Sg singular
• +Pl plural

• +Px1Sg person prefixes for nouns
• +Px2Sg
• +Px3Sg
• +Px1Pl obviative
• +Px12Pl inclusive
• +Px2Pl
• +Px3Pl

• +IA intransitive with animate subject,
• +II intransitive with inanimate subject,
• +TA transitive with animate object, and
• +TI transitive with inanimate object.

• +AN animate noun
• +IN inanimate noun

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Flagdiacritics

These are documented in Chapter 8 of Beesley/Karttunen, p. 456 zB.

Symbols that need to be escaped on the lower side (towards twolc):

»7

Literal »

«7

Literal «

  %[%>%]  - Literal >
  %[%<%]  - Literal <

LEXICON Root is where it all starts

• Noun ;
• Verb ;
• Pronoun ;
• Punctuation ;
• Symbols ;

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