Variant: alternative form of word
In Slovenian, the Variant feature is either a lexical or inflectional features of some pronouns.
Bound: bound form
This value is assigned as a lexical feature of fused combinations of prepositions and personal pronouns that are currently tokenized as one word form and annotated as personal pronouns.
Examples
- To je zame preveč. “This is too much for me”
- Skozenj je stekel električni tok. “Electric current ran through him.”
- Prednjo so postavili kozarec vina. “A glass of wine was put in front of her.”
Short: clitic form
This value is assigned as an inflectional feature to clitic personal pronouns in genitive, dative and accusative to distinguish them from their longer counterparts with the same lemma and set of features.
Examples
- ga (“him”, variant of njega)
- jih (“them”, variant of njih)
- jo (“her”, variant of njo)
- mi (“to me”, variant of meni) *se (“oneself”, used either as a variant of reflexive pronoun sebi or as an obligatory free morpheme with pseudo-reflexive verbs, such as smejati se “to laugh”)
Variant in other languages: [be] [cs] [cu] [de] [koi] [kpv] [la] [lt] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pl] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [uk]