Template:cic-person marker

Chickasaw Person Markers

Person Markers			Class I			Class II			Class III			Class N		Imperative
			+C	+V	+s	+C	+a	+o	+ch/k/t	+m/n/f/h/l/lh/s/sh/w/y (airflow consonants)	+V/b/p	+C	+V	+C/V
1st-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	asa-	aso-	an-	a̠-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial							-san-	-sa̠-	-sam-
	plural		ii- / lii-	il-	ii- / lii-	po-	apo-		pon-	po̠-	pom-	kii-	kil-
	inclusive tri-plural		iloo-			hapo-	apo-		hapon-	hapo̠-	hapom-	kiloo-
2nd-person	singular		ish-		is-	chi-	achi-	acho-	chin-	chi̠-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		hash-		has-	hachi-	achi-	acho-	hachin-	hachi̠-	hachim-	hachik-		hoo-
3rd-person	singular		∅			∅			in-	i̠-	im-	ik-		n/a
	plural		∅ / (hoo-)			∅ / (hoo-)

• Class I person markers are used to indicate the subject of active verbs.
• Class II person markers indicate the subject for stative verbs, to indicate the direct object of verbs taking Class I or Class N subject markers, and are also used to indicate the possessor of inalienable nouns.
• Use of the Class I and Class II "hoo-" prefix to indicate a plural 3rd-person subject of a verb and its use is optional.
• Class III subject markers are used on verbs with a dative prefix im-/in-/i̠- and replace the prefix. Class III are also used as object (usually indirect object) markers for verbs and to indicate the possessor of alienable nouns.
• The Class N subject prefixes are used in the place of other subject markers to form the negative and unaccomplised hortatives of verbs as well as replacing the unaccomplished "ik-" prefix of negative verbs that that include the prefis "ik-".
• Class I and Class N subject markers cannot be used on a same verb together but both can be combined with either Class II or Class III object markers, depending on the verb.
• Class II and Class III markers cannot be used together on a same verb. If one wants to use a Class III object marker with a stative verb that normally takes a Class II subject marker, one can use a Class I subject marker instead to combine with a Class III object marker.

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