Ŋʒädär Person Morphology

Beyond its direct/inverse marker, Ŋʒädär does have some extent of person marking on its verb. There is, however, some extent of optionality to the markers.

Ŋʒädär has polypersonal verb agreement - it marks for both the subject and objects. Objects and subjects are not morphologically distinguished per se, neither in the nominal morphology nor in the verbal agreement system. Thus, the two dimensions of the agreement systems are not full cartesian products along the lines of (persons x numbers) x (persons x numbers). Since we have dealt with reflexives previously, we also can tell that there are no elements along the 'diagonal', with the exception of obviative/obviative

The columns represent the lower ranked element, the rows the higher ranked element. The inverse/direct morpheme tells which of the two is the subject.

	1 sg	2 sg	3 sg prox / intr.	3sg obv	1pl	2 pl	3 pl prox	3 pl obv
1sg		-sAvU-	-sA-	-sqO-	-zdA-	-zvUr	-tAs*-	-tAsqO*-
2sg			-U-	-UqO-	-dvU	-Ur-	-Us-	-UsqO-
3sg prox / intr			-ε- **	-h(I)qO-	-dA-	-Ur-	-s(I)-	-s(I)qO-
3sg obv				-qO**-	-dA-	-UrqO-	-s(I)qO-	-OqO-
1pl						-dAvUr-	-dAs-	-dAqO-
2pl							-Urs-	-UrQo-
3pl prox								-s(I)qO-
3pl obv

** the ε symbol signifies the empty string; for 3sg proximative, the form only permits an intransitive parsing; the 3sg obv / 3sg obv both permit an intransitive or transitive parsing. The 3sg. prox and 3sg. obv are also used with intransitive plural subjects.

* the initial -t of the suffix sometimes assimilates, along the following lines.

nt → n
lt → l
rt → r
st → s
qt → q
kt → k
pt → p
ft → t
mt → t
jt → j
ht → t
Voiced stops and voiced fricatives tend to turn into voiceless fricatives:
bt → ft
zt → st
dt → st
gt → xt
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