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This page is intended to describe how different suffixes are annotaed in the database.

SUffixes are annotated in several columnsthat appear in the verbs. Specifically, we mark the presence of an affix with a 1 and we in general separate three types of affixes/phenomena:

1. Verbal affixes
2. Multifunctional suffixes (these are also annotated in the column Root)
3. Affix-like and other

To annotate these items we first created a list of candidates for each type. In what follows we give the lists of all three types of suffixes for BCMS and Slovenian separately, as the two have different suffixes.

Column Suffixed reflects a summary of all this annotation - verbs that have no suffix are marked with a 0, verbs that have either a verbal suffix, a potential non-verbal suffix or an suffix-like element get a 1.

Column Simplex_verbs marks with 1 verbs that do not have any of the abovementioned suffixes or prefixes and are not compounds, otherwise, it is marked with a 0.

We consider verbal suffixes to have verbalizing, aspectual and/or modifying function (e.g., diminutive). Verbal suffixes are annotated in two ways. In column Verbal suffix (y/n) it is simply shown if a verb has a verbal suffix (1) or does not have a verbal suffix (0). It is then specified which verbal suffix the verb has in one of the following columns (with 1 if the verb has that suffix), where each of the columns refers to s specific suffix. We give the lists of verbal suffixes below. Note that the list for Slovenian and BHS are slightly different.

Suffixes that do not have a verbalizing, aspectual or modifying function, are annotated as multifunctional as they (i) potentially originate from a different category and (ii) have a vague meaning. These suffixes are annotated in a single column called Multi_functional suffixes. We mark if the verb has one one of the following suffixes (see the list for BCMS and Slovenian below) with 1 (if not, 0). To see which multifunctional suffix the verb has, see the column Root. As above, the list of suffixes are different for BCMS and Slovenian.

If the verb apparently has the form (pref+)root+theme, but there are reasons to assume a more complex structure, this is indicated with a one (1) in this column.
For Slovenian, this column is intended for secondary imperfective verbs in which we do not necessarily have phonologically overt material (which is annotated in the verbal suffixes columns). Two indicators of this additional structure are the ablaut (the root exhibits a vowel change) and a -j-. Note that while -v- has the same distribution, for Slovenian we annotate v as a verbal suffix (on par with ava, ova, eva). The Slovenian and the BCMS databases are different in this respect, because some of the arguments in Simonović et al. (2023) for non-suffixal nature of v in BCMS do not extend to Slovenian.
All types of examples that are annotated as suffix-like in the BCMS database are listed in the tables below (for the rationale behind the assumed segmentation, see Simonović et al. 2023).