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Example
Nahuatl with Leipzig Glossing Rules abbreviations
Same Nahuatl clause with grammatical category labels (1SG.SUBJ, 3SG.OBJ, APPL) instead of full English gloss words.
Example layout based on an example in the Wikipedia article Interlinear gloss (illustrative; Leipzig-style conventions).
What this example shows
This is the same Nahuatl clause as the word-by-word version, but the gloss line is written the way grammars and journals write it: with category labels instead of full English words. 1SG.SUBJ stands in for “I”, 3SG.OBJ for the object, and APPL for the applicative. It is the format an author uses when preparing interlinear text for publication.
Pedagogical gloss or publication gloss
A teaching gloss writes “make” and “my” so a beginner can read it. A publication gloss writes APPL and POSS, which are compact and unambiguous to a linguist. The morphemes and their boundaries stay the same; only the labels change. Keeping the hyphens aligned means the tag line and the source line have the same number of pieces.
Reading the abbreviations
A period inside a label, as in 1SG.SUBJ, ties several meanings that one morpheme carries at once. APPL marks the applicative, which adds a beneficiary to the verb. These tags are part of the standard Leipzig set.
For the full set:
Recreate it in the editor
Open the example and edit the gloss line to switch between teaching labels and journal tags. Tighten the gap between the gloss and the source so the block reads as one unit, then export it as PNG, SVG, or PDF for a paper or a grammar.
See also
Related examples:
- Classical Nahuatl word-by-word glosses the same clause with plain English words.
- Turkish case and verb morphology shows case and person tags on a single clause.
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