Parts-of-speech & morphosyntax

Part I: Parts-of-speech and morphosyntax

1. Verbal inflectional categories

1.1 Valance & Valency alternating morphology

1.1.1 Transitivity and embodiment
1.1.2 Prototypical transitive events
1.1.3 Event energy source
1.1.4 Event energy direction
1.1.5 Notes on activa tantum and media tantum verbs

1.2 Aspect

1.2.1 Perfective
1.2.2 Imperfective
1.2.3 Completive-resultative

1.3 Tense

1.3.1 Past
1.3.2 Non-past
1.3.3 Future

1.4 Mood/modality

1.4.1 Indicative: The unmarked/default mood
1.4.2 Subjunctive: Epistemic modality
1.4.3 Optative: Remote epistemic modality
1.4.4 Imperative: Deontic modality & illocutionary force
1.4.5 Exhortatives: interlocutors & participant reference

1.5 Subject agreement

1.5.1 Person
1.5.2 Number

2. Inflectional morphology of the verb

3. Auxiliary verbs

3.1 Types of auxiliaries
3.2 Periphrasis
3.3 Auxiliaries and participles

4. Verbal derivational morphology

4.1 Infinitive
4.2 Participle
4.3 Compounding & similar processes

4.3.1 Pre-verb attachment/directionals
4.3.2 Compounding
4.3.3 Noun incorporation

5. Nominal inflectional categories

5.1 Gender

5.1.1 Gender as noun class
5.1.2 Masculine
5.1.3 Feminine
5.1.4 Neuter
5.1.5 Gender in nouns
5.1.6 Gender agreement & co-indexing

5.2 Number

5.2.1 Singular
5.2.2 Plural
5.2.3 Dual*

6. Inflectional Morphology of the Noun

7. Inflectional Morphology of the Adjective

7.1 Adjective inflection classes and iconicity
7.2 Formal relationships among adjective classes

8. Inflectional morphology of quantifiers

9. Other derivational morphology

9.1 Nominalization
9.2 Modifier derivation

10. Referential & deictic system

10.1 Interlocutives

10.1.1 Personal pronouns
10.1.2 Possessive pronouns
10.1.3 Reflexive pronouns

10.2 Non-interlocutives

10.2.1 Definite

10.2.1.1 Substitutive

10.2.1.1.1 Personal
10.2.1.1.2 Demonstrative

10.2.1.2 Non-substitutive

10.2.2 Non-definite

10.2.2.1 Indefinite
10.2.2.2 Interrogative

10.2.3 Relative
10.2.4 Correlative

11. Prepositions

12. Other lexical classes

12.1 Adverbs
12.2 Negators
12.3 Connectives
12.4 Interjectives