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- Abbreviations used in glosses:
ABS "absolutive",
A(CC) "accusative",
AFD "actual focus domain",
AOR "aorist",
APPL "applicative",
ÄUG "stem augment",
CL "classifier",
CMPL "complementizer",
CND "conditional",
CON "connective particle",
coNT "continuative",
DAT "dative",
DEP"dependent",
DS "different subject",
DTR "detransitivizer",
DUR "durative",
ERG "ergative",
FIN "finite",
FOC "focus",
FUT "future",
G(EN) "genitive",
IF "illocutionary force",
IMP "imperative",
IMPER "impersonal",
IMPF "imperfective",
IN "inchoative",
iND "indicative",
INF "infinitive",
IRR "irrealis",
LOC "locative",
MOD "modality",
NEG "negative",
NEGPAST "negative past",
NM "noun marker",
NMz "nominalizer",
NOM "nominative",
NONsiM "non-simultaneous",
NPP "non-past progressive",
OBJ "object",
PASS "passive",
PF "perfect",
PFD "potential focus domain"
PFV "perfective",
PM "proper noun marker",
PRED "predicate marker",
PRES "present",
ONT "quantifier",
SEQ "sequential",
SIM "simultaneous",
ss "same subject",
SUBJ "subject",
SUFF "suffix",
TOP "topic",
TPAST "today's past",
UP "undergoer pivot",
YPAST "yesterday's past".- See FVV:3-7, 16-20 for an account of how the major tenets of generative grammar
follow from this definition of language. - See Nichols (1984) for a critical discussion of the various functionalist approaches
to grammatical description and theory. - See FVV: 7-25, Van Valin (1980) for a detailed presentation of the basic concep
tual assumptions of RRG. - The criteria for core argumenthood will be discussed in detail in section 3.3.1. The
characterization given here is different from the one given in FVV, which
restricted it to non-oblique arguments of the nucleus. Oblique arguments of the
verb were considered part of the "inner periphery" in FVV; they are considered
core arguments here, and the contrast between inner and outer periphery has
been abandoned. This is, however, the same concept of core argument assumed in
Foley & Van Valin (1985).