Rel
: relational
Values: | Cont | NCont | Hum | Corf | Abs |
Rel
is a morpheme that combines with lexical roots and postpositions. They signalize the
adjacency or contiguity (Rel=Cont) and non-adjacency or non-contiguity of head and depenent,
e.g., possessor-noun, object-postposition.
Cont
: contiguous
Contiguity is more often associated with
Examples
- ʃe=r-uβ “I have a father / There is my father”
-
ʃe=r-uβ-a “My father”
- nde=r-orɨβ “you are happy / there is your happiness”
- nde=r-orɨβ-a “Your happiness”
NCont
: non-contiguous
Non-contiguity is more often associated with
Examples
- t-uβ “He has a father / there is his father”
-
t-uβ-a “He is (a/the) father / ”
- s-orɨβ “(S)he/it is happy / there is her/his/its/their happiness”
- s-orɨβ-a “Her/his/their/its happiness”
Hum
: Human
Huma relational indicates that the possessor
Examples
- m.osanga “medicine (of people)”
- posanga</b> “medicine”
- toʔo “flesh (human)”
- soʔo “flesh (non-human)”
Corf
: Coreferential
The correferential relational indicates that the possessor
Examples
- i-sɨ “his mother”
- o-sɨ “his own mother”
Abs
: Absolute
Examples
- “”
- “”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan
from Plur
and Coll
from Sing
,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Rel in other languages: [aqz] [arr] [eme] [gn] [gub] [mpu] [myu] [tpn] [urb] [yrl]