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--- user:zeman:interset:features [2014/10/31 16:29]
zeman Foreign script.
+++ user:zeman:interset:features [2014/11/17 00:29]
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 | **Value** | **Description** |
 | foreign | foreign word (not a loan word but a citation in a foreign language — e.g., the title of a foreign book) |
-| fscript | foreign word written in a foreign script, e.g. "सगरमाथा" in an English text |
+| fscript | foreign word written in a foreign script, e.g. "सगरमाथा" in English text |
-| tscript | foreign word transcribed from a foreign script, e.g. "Sagaramāthā" in an English text |
+| tscript | foreign word transcribed from a foreign script, e.g. "Sagaramāthā" in English text |
 ===== gender =====
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 | inf | informal (Czech "ty/vy", German "du/ihr", Spanish "tú/vosotros") |
 | pol | polite (Czech "vy", German "Sie", Spanish "usted") |
+===== (abs|erg|dat)(person|number|politeness|gender) =====
+In quite a few languages, finite verb forms agree in person and number with the subject. In Basque, a subset of verbs agree with up to three arguments: one in the absolutive case, one in ergative and one in dative. To distinguish the different values of person, number (and politeness and rarely even gender), there are special features for each of the three arguments. Their names contain the three-letter code of the case of the argument: ''absperson'', ''absnumber'', ''ergperson'', ''ergnumber'' etc. The value range is identical to the base features. That is, ''absnumber'', ''ergnumber'' and ''datnumber'' may get the same values as ''number''.
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