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This template formats a single linguistic glossing abbreviation (a grammatical category label). For example, ((gcl|CONT))
produces: CONT. Hovering the mouse over the abbreviation displays a tooltip with its meaning, which in this case is "continuous aspect". To specify a meaning different from the default one,[1] pass it as a second parameter after the abbreviation itself: ((gcl|CONT|continuative))
gives: CONT.
The abbreviation will be rendered as a link to the relevant article if the |glossing=
parameter is set to wikilink
, thus ((gcl|CLF|glossing=wikilink))
gives: CLF. The wikipedia article is specified by the third parameter: ((gcl|CLF|classifier|Chinese classifier))
gives: CLF. The presence of this third parameter (even if empty) will force the abbreviation to be displayed as a wikilink – ((gcl|CLF||))
is equivalent to ((gcl|CLF|glossing=wikilink))
.
This template is mainly used within ((interlinear)). It will exempt its content from the default glossing behaviour in the interlinear text. This can be needed in several circumstances:
((interlinear))
this would prevent the abbreviation from being recognised);((interlinear))
formatting. To this end, two further values of the |glossing=
parameter can be used: |glossing=no link
will force the use of the default formatting as an abbreviation with a tooltip, without turning it into a wikilink; |glossing=no abbr
will only format the label in small caps without treating it as an abbreviation. Additional CSS styles[2] can be set using the |style=
parameter.To prevent a string from being treated as a glossing label at all, use ((no gloss)).