6-633: The word Atchafalaya derives from the Choctaw term hacha falaia , meaning "long river". Atchafalaya may refer to: Choctaw language The Choctaw language (Choctaw: Chahta anumpa ), spoken by the Choctaw , an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands , US, is a member of the Muskogean language family . Chickasaw is a separate but closely related language to Choctaw. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma published
12-496: Is generally referred to as active–stative and polypersonal agreement . Class I affixes always indicate the subject of the verb. Class II prefixes usually indicate direct object of active verbs and the subject of stative verbs. Class III prefixes indicate the indirect object of active verbs. A small set of stative psychological verbs have class III subjects; an even smaller set of stative verbs dealing primarily with affect, communication and intimacy have class III direct objects. As
18-438: Is the first-person singular class I agreement marker /-li/. Third-person is completely unmarked for class I and class II agreement arguments and never indicates number. Some authors (Ulrich 1986, Davies, 1986) refer to class I as actor or nominative, class II as patient or accusative and class III as dative. Broadwell prefers the neutral numbered labels because the actual use of the affixes is more complex. This type of morphology
24-933: The New Choctaw dictionary in 2016. There are three dialects of Choctaw (Mithun 1999): Other speakers live near Tallahassee , Florida , and with the Koasati in Louisiana , and also a few speakers live in Texas and California . Choctaw verbs display a wide range of inflectional and derivational morphology. In Choctaw, the category of verb may also include words that would be categorized as adjectives or quantifiers in English. Verbs may be preceded by up to three prefixes and followed by as many as five suffixes. In addition, verb roots may contain infixes that convey aspectual information. The verbal prefixes convey information about
30-411: The arguments of the verb: how many there are and their person and number features. The prefixes can be divided into three sorts: agreement markers, applicative markers, and anaphors (reflexives and reciprocals). The prefixes occur in the following order: agreement-anaphor-applicative-verb stem. The agreement affixes are shown in the following chart. The only suffix among the personal agreement markers
36-657: The chart above shows, there is no person-number agreement for third person arguments. Consider the following paradigms: Transitive active verbs seemingly with class III direct objects: When a transitive verb occurs with more than one agreement prefix, I prefixes precede II and III prefixes: Ii- 1P .I- chi- 2S . II - pi̱sa see ⟨ NGR ⟩ -tok - PT Ii- chi- pi̱sa -tok 1P.I- 2S.II- see ⟨ NGR ⟩ -PT 'We saw you.' Ish- 2S .I- pim- 1P . III - anooli tell -tok. - PT Ish- pim- anooli -tok. 2S.I- 1P.III- tell -PT 'You told us.' For intransitive verbs,
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