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This is the page devoted to the glossing problems of the Uralic languages. 

• the Leipzig glossing rules
• Lists of additions to the Leipzig list:
• case
• tense
• aspect
• evidentiality
• possessive markers
• non-finite forms
• ...

Here are the proposals concerning specific glossing problems by the following authors, as they appeared on the Uralist (contact Johanna Laakso to join): 

• Grünthal proposal for discussion.
• object conjugation. Erzya, Mansi, Samoyedic examples, discussion.
• connegative forms of verbs are seldom marked overtly. North Saami, Mari examples.
• Fejes
• proposes the formation of a small group for discussing the glossing issues of the Uralic languages
• discusses Grünthal' s glossing, incl. grammatical categories which cannot be linked to any surface morph
• Tamm where we need uniformity and where diversity in glossing. Estonian examples. Proposals for web pages.
• Matsumura not everybody applies the LGR. Examles from Mari, Saami
• Fejes 2, 3 commenting on Matsumura's examples and glossing
• Siegl Warning: LGR is NOT meant as a guideline how to gloss a given language, and glossing conventions are a matter of analysis. Connegative. Forest Enets. Suggestions for further action
• a three-day conference with special working groups consisting of participants from around the world, including native linguists if available.

• after the conference, a wiki for discussing proposals should be set up.

• finally, gathered proposals and comments from this wiki could be reviewed in a follow-up conference and

• on the basis of this, some possible Uralic Glossing Conventions (UGC) could be proposed.

• Miestamo
• the same researcher may gloss the same form differently depending on context. Finnish example
• the distinction of the glossing syntax (fixed) and lexicon (partly varying).
• connegative
• Viks, Tamm:

• a summary of more general problems of morphological glossing

• generation of glosses starting with the morphological basis (in the example, on the basis of a morphological analyzer)

• the example of Estonian.

• Markus and Rozhanskiy, example of Votic 4-line examples including glossing