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]