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Roots

The cell ‘Root’ can be used as an indicator which verbs belong to the same word family. Crucially, we do not claim that the annotated form is the exact phonological form of the root of the verb. Rather, this should be taken as a cell that can help the users group together verbs that are related by some common core (the chosen form could in principle be replaced by a random number/index).

Still, we tried to capture what we believe is the common core of all the related verbs. The material in the cell ‘Root’ therefore refers to the verb without prefixes, thematic vowels or verbal affixes.

Language	Example	Root	Gloss & Notes
Slo/BCS	pisati	pis	‘to write.ipfv’; the verb has no prefix, removed are the TV a and the infinitival ending
Slo/BCS	napisati	pis	‘to write.pfv’; removed are the prefix na-, the TV a and the infinitival ending
BCS	prepisivati	pis	‘to write.ipfv’; removed are the prefix pre- and the verbal suffix -iv, the TV a and the infinitival ending
Slo	prepisovati	pis	‘to write.ipfv’; removed are the prefix pre- and the verbal suffix -ov, the TV a and the infinitival ending

As evident from the table above, the meaning of verbs was taken as a motivating factor to determine that verbs with homophonous material belong in the same word family. In addition, another motivation for the choice of the root were alternation patterns. If multiple verbs have the same alternation pattern in their paradigm and in the aspectual pair, we treated them as having the same root.

Language	Example	Root	Gloss & Notes
BCS	odabrati	b-r	‘to chosse.pfv’
BCS	odabirati	b-r	‘to chose.ipfv’
BCS	sabrati	b-r	‘to sum.pfv’
BCS	sabirati	b-r	‘to sum.ipfv’
Slo	razložiti	l-g	‘to explain.pfv’, ‘to put down.pfv’
Slo	razlagati	l-g	‘to explain.ipfv’, ‘to put down.ipfv’
Slo	položiti	l-g	‘to lay down.pfv’
Slo	polagati	l-g	‘to lay down.ipfv’