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4.2.1.2 Trisyllabic alienably possessed nouns (1Sg, 2Sg, and 3Sg) ...................... 144
4.2.1.3 a-final alienably possessed nouns (1Sg, 2Sg, and 3Sg) ............................. 145
4.2.1.4 Monosyllabic alienably possessed nouns (1Sg, 2Sg, and 3Sg) ................. 146
4.2.1.5 Other third person alienable possessors (3Pl, 3FullSg, 3FullPl) ............... 147
4.2.1.6 First/second person plural possessors of singular alienable nouns ............ 148
4.2.1.7 Alienably possessed plural nouns (2nd/3rd person possessor) .................. 149
4.2.1.8 Alienably possessed plural nouns (first person possessor) ........................ 150
4.2.2 Inalienable possession ....................................................................................... 151
4.2.2.1 Inventory of inalienable nouns................................................................... 152
4.2.2.2 First and second person inalienable possessor ........................................... 155
4.2.2.3 1st/2nd person inalienable possessor with original *L.H stem .................. 160
4.2.2.4 Inalienable stems with unsuffixed 3Sg-possessor forms ........................... 161
4.2.2.5 3PossSg (general third person inalienable possessor), singular noun........ 162
4.2.2.6 General third person inalienable possessor, plural noun (3PossPl) ........... 164
4.2.2.7 3Sg inalienable possessor, singular and plural noun ................................. 166
4.2.3 Morphologically defective nouns ...................................................................... 169
4.2.3.1 môy ‘namesake’ (no definite or possessive suffixation)............................ 169
4.2.3.2 Nouns with possessor but without definite suffixation (bè:, kû:, etc.) ...... 169
4.2.3.3 ‘Daybreak’ (mùwⁿò ~ mò: ~ mòm plus bów ~ bó:)................................... 170
4.2.3.4 Nouns resistant to or restricting -o+H suffix ............................................ 170
4.3 Personal pronouns ..................................................................................................... 172
4.3.1 Person and number categories ........................................................................... 172
4.3.2 Plural pronominal categories ............................................................................. 172
4.3.3 Preference for plural over singular pronouns as possessors .............................. 173
4.3.4 Independent and subject-object clitic pronominals ........................................... 173
4.3.4.1 Independent and clitic pronominals ........................................................... 173
4.3.4.2 Subject and object pronominal clitics ........................................................ 174
4.3.4.3 Subject pronominal clitic plus imperfective gù+H ~ ẁ+H ..................... 176
4.3.4.4 Subject pronominal clitic plus transitive clitic ŋ̂........................................ 177
4.3.4.5 Subject pronominal clitic plus subjunctive m̂ ~ ŋ̂ ..................................... 178
4.3.4.6 3Sg preverbal object clitic allomorphs (=ŋ̂, =à:, à) ................................ 180
4.3.4.7 3Sg postverbal object suffix allomorphs (-à ~ -â ) and Tonal Rhythm ...... 181
4.3.5 Pronouns as postpositional complements and as possessors ............................. 181
4.3.6 Pronouns preceding or following ńdù+H ‘with, and’ ...................................... 183
4.3.6.1 Pronouns after ńdù+H ‘with, and’ ............................................................ 183
4.3.6.2 Pronouns before ńdù+H ‘and’ .................................................................. 184
4.4 Demonstratives ......................................................................................................... 185
4.4.1 Demonstrative pronouns (H+wô, plural H+w-êy) and contracted -ô: ........... 185
4.4.2 Combinations of temporal noun plus demonstrative ......................................... 186
4.4.3 Spatial demonstrative adverbs ........................................................................... 186
4.4.4 Demonstrative expressions based on distal yá: ‘there’ ..................................... 188
4.4.5 Emphatic and approximative modifiers of demonstratives ............................... 188
4.5 Nominalizations and nominal inflection ................................................................... 189
4.5.1 Verbal nouns in -ɲoŋ+H .................................................................................. 189
4.5.2 Verbal nouns in -r-o+H (nonfinal -r-u ~ -rî).................................................... 191
4.5.3 Deverbal nominals in -i and -ey ........................................................................ 194