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Length

This section is only relevant for BCS.

Vowel length is annotated across 8 columns – 4 for the infinitive, 4 for a present tense form. In order to annotate length, each verb is cut into 4 parts. This is shown in the schema below for verb poigravati, poigravamo ‘to play, we play’.

4	3	2	1	-	4	3	2	1
all preceding syllables	base-final syllable	tv	inf	-	all preceding syllables	base-final syllable	tv	1pl.present
poigr	av	a	ti	-	poigr	av	a	mo
	1			-		1

For the purposes of the database we transformed the traditional prosodic representations to those relevant for us. We underline the long vowel.
Any syllable carrying one of the following diacritics is long:

Diacritic	Example
ˆ	mȃjka is majka 'mother'
´	rúka is ruka 'hand'
ˉ	nàpadām is napadam 'I attack'

Infinitive
Lenght marked on 1: Not applicable (hypothetically possible for long INF endings, which are not attested).
Lenght marked on 2: Not applicable (hypothetically possible for long INF themes, which are not attested). \\Lenght marked on 3: We entered 1 if the final syllable of the base is long, e.g., poigrávati – poigraav-a-ti 'to play'.
Lenght marked on 4: enter 1 if a non-final syllable of the base is long, e.g., závisiti – zaavis-i-ti 'to depend on'.

Present tense
Lenght marked on 1: Not applicable (hypothetically possible for long endings).
Lenght marked on 2: We entered 1 if the theme is long, e.g., ȉgrāmo – igr-aa-mo 'we play', závisīmo – zaavis-ii-mo 'we depend on' , poìgrāvāmo – poigraav-aa-mo 'we play'.
Lenght marked on 3: We entered 1 if the final syllable of the stem is long, poìgrāvāmo – poigraav-aa-mo 'we play'.
Lenght marked on 4: We entered 1 if a non-final syllable of the stem is long, e.g., závisīmo – zaavis-ii-mo 'we depend on'.

verb	1	2	3	4	-	1	2	3	4
zavisiti				4	-				4

If there are more possibilities, all are entered.

???ZA BHS TEAM: zavisiti is unclear - in the base as 44, according to this it shuld be 24-24?