This section of the Morphosyntax Guide is to serve as a reference for the LDP’s nascent inventory of grammatical categories.
We’re interested in identifying the onset and frequency of various grammatical phenomena in our subjects. The inventory is our attempt to make explicit both how we understand these grammatical categories and how we use the morphosyntactic annotation in a transcript to identify uses of a particular category.
We’ve come up with definitions for grammatical categories at various levels. In particular, we have grammatical categories for four distinct units of speech:
For each category, we’ll try to provide: