Variant
: alternative form of word
Values: | Long | Short |
Sometimes there are multiple word forms for the same lemma and set of features.
The Variant
feature helps distinguish alternate forms.
In Moksha there is one group of words where double forms are regular and worth capturing:
short forms of pronouns in the dative case. The frequency is very high for Short
forms, whereas
Long
forms, as indicated by their name physically show a pronoun.
This feature marks both the short forms and the long forms, hence there are the values, Short
and Long
.
Long
: short form of personal pronouns both reflex and non-reflex
Examples
- мондейне “to me”, тондейть “to you”, сондеенза “to him/her/it”, миндейнек “to us”, тиндейнть “to you”, синдеест “to them”
Short
: short form of personal pronouns both reflex and non-reflex
Examples
- теень / тейне “to me”, тейть “to you”, тейнза “to him/her/it”, теест “to them”
Variant in other languages: [be] [cs] [cu] [de] [koi] [kpv] [la] [lt] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pl] [ps] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [uk]