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There should be indications of the original page numbers in Swanton’s English translations. They could be put inline in the text, but this would probably be distracting. A better idea is a margin note like with the page and line numbers of the analyzed sentences. The exact spot in the text for the page break can be indicated with an unobtrusive element like U+2038 ‸ Caret.

Currently citations of verbs – e.g. awsiteen (∅; achievement) ‘s/he/it saw him/her/it’ – and citations of motion derivations – e.g. NP-dáx̱ (g; kei=…-ch repetitive) ‘up from NP’ – are variously coded in the LaTeX source. They should all be unified using the same macros everywhere. Some can found by regular expression, but the multiple inconsistent patterns currently used for them mean that some will have to be identified by eye.

The qualifier (and comparative) prefixes currently analyzed as k- and ÿ- should be reanalyzed to include their vowels as ka- and ÿa-. Progress on the phonology of the prefixes suggests that these have an inherent vowel unlike the aspectual prefixes such as n- and g̱- that do not.