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GLOSSARY OF TERMS, CONCEPTS, AND UNITS FOR MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS 1

Please find below all the terms you will need for the full analysis of the excerpt.
Should you require any extra concepts, do not hesitate to include your own by means
of full words rather than acronyms or abbreviations.

THE HIERARCHY OF UNITS

Sentence 2 (S) => Clause (Cl) => Phrase (P) => Word (w)

WORD CLASSES (OR PARTS OF SPEECH) [FORM CLASSES OF WORD]

Adjective (Adj) Demonstrative Pronoun (DemPro) Noun (N)

Adverb (Adv) Determiner (Det) Personal Pronoun (PerPro)
Article (Art) Full Verb (FV) Preposition (Prep)
Auxiliary Verb (AV) Interjection (int) Pronoun (Pro)
Conjunction (cj) Interrogative Pronoun (IntPro)

OTHER GRAMMATICAL LABELS [CONJUGATIONS, DECLENSIONS, GENDER, NUMBER, ETC.]

Accusative (Acc) First Past (FP) Long (L) Person (Per) Singular (Sg)
Masculine
Athematic (Ath) Genitive (G) Plural (Pl) Strong (St)
(Masc)
Subjunctive
Class (C) Imperative (Im) Neuter (Neu) Present (Pres)
(Subj)
Present
Nominative
Dative (D) Indicative (Ind) Participle U-Stem (U-S)
(Nom)
(PresPart)
Second Past
Dual (D) Infinitive (I) Past (Past) Weak (W)
(SP)
Past
Inflected
Feminine (Fem) Participle Short (Sh)
Infinitive (II)
(PastPart)

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Abbreviations and symbols are always provided between round brackets after each concept.
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Sentences can be divided into simple (consisting of only one clause) and complex (with two or more
clauses).
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PHRASES [FORM CLASSES OF PHRASE]

Adjective Phrase (AP)

Adverb Phrase (AdvP)

Noun Phrase (NP)

Prepositional Phrase (PP)

Verb Phrase (VP)

SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS AT PHRASE LEVEL [FUNCTION CLASSES WITHIN THE PHRASE]

Auxiliary (Aux) Full Verb (FV) Pre-modifier (Prem)

Complement (C) Head (H)
Determinative (Det) Post-modifier (Postm)

SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS AT CLAUSE LEVEL [FUNCTION CLASSES WITHIN THE CLAUSE]

Adverbial (A) Object Complement (Co) Subject Adjunct (SA)

Direct Object (DO) Predicator (P) Subject Complement (Cs)
Indirect Object (IO) Subject (S)

“BONUS TRACKS”

Active Voice (AV) Inversion (Inv) Passive Voice (PV)

Fronting (F) Main clause (MCl) Subordinate clause (SCl)

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