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| 3 | third (his, her, its, their) | | | 3 | third (his, her, its, their) | | ||
- | ===== politeness | + | ===== polite |
| **Value** | **Description** | | | **Value** | **Description** | | ||
- | | inf | informal (Czech " | + | | infm | informal (Czech " |
- | | pol | polite (Czech " | + | | form | formal / polite (Czech " |
+ | | elev | elevated status of referent/ | ||
+ | | humb | humbled status of speaker, subtype of '' | ||
- | ===== (abs|erg|dat)(person|number|politeness|gender) ===== | + | ===== (abs|erg|dat)(person|number|polite|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: '' | 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: '' |