and negation. These inflectional affixes are glossed as FUT and NEG; a list of standard abbreviations for grammatical categories that are widely used in linguistics can be found in the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

One-to-many correspondences. When a single object-language element corresponds to several metalanguage elements, they are separated by periods. E.g.,

Non-overt elements. If the morpheme-by-morpheme gloss (middle line) contains an element that does not correspond to an overt element in the example, a standard

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