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Turkish infinitive gloss (one-to-many correspondence)
Turkish çık-mak with gloss come.out-INF: one morpheme glossed as two English words using Leipzig period notation.
Example layout based on an example in the Wikipedia article Interlinear gloss (illustrative; Leipzig-style conventions).
What this example shows
A single Turkish verb, çık-mak, glosses as two English words plus a tag: come.out-INF. This is the smallest interlinear case, two lines and one word, and it is the clearest place to see how one source morpheme can answer to several words in the translation. It reads like a dictionary entry.
One stem, one suffix
The word splits into a stem and an infinitive ending:
- çık come.out
- The verb stem. English has no single word for it, so two words joined by a period stand in: come.out.
- -mak INF
- The infinitive suffix, glossed with the tag INF rather than a word.
The period for one-to-many
When one source morpheme needs more than one English word, Leipzig conventions join those words with a period instead of a space, so come.out reads as a single gloss for a single morpheme. Writing it as two separate words would suggest two morphemes, which would break the matching count. The period keeps one piece on each side.
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See also
Related examples:
- Turkish case and verb morphology shows a fuller clause with case and person.
- Avar interlinear gloss shows one verb mapping to several English words.