Pronoun Paradigm: Big Nambas
Paradigm Details:
Language: (nmb) Big Nambas.
Family:
System Type: F
Source: Fox (1979).
Comment: The language makes a distinction between obligatorily and optionally possessed nouns (Fox 1979:23-30). The possessive personal suffixes used with the majority of optionally possessed nouns are listed below. Note however, a small number of optionally possessed nouns (enumerated by Fox 1979:26) do not take the possessive suffixes listed but rather are preceded by the appropriately inflected form of the possessive adjective /nan/ (‘his’). Obligatorily possessed nouns take a set of personal possessive suffixes otherwise identical to those listed below except that the initial segment /a/ is absent (Fox 1979:25).
Pronoun Paradigm:
| A | S | O | Poss. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st (excl) Person Singular | kana | kana | kana | -k |
| 1st (excl) Person Dual | kam̼em̼ | kam̼em̼ | kam̼em̼ | -m̼em̼ |
| 1st (excl) Person Plural | kam̼em̼ | kam̼em̼ | kam̼em̼ | -m̼em̼ |
| 1st (incl) Person Dual | nakəd | nakəd | nakəd | -d |
| 1st (incl) Person Plural | nakəd | nakəd | nakəd | -d |
| 2nd Person Singular | nakəm | nakəm | -əɣ | -m |
| 2nd Person Dual | kam̼i | kam̼i | kam̼i | -m̼i |
| 2nd Person Plural | kam̼i | kam̼i | kam̼i | -m̼i |
| 3rd Person Singular Gender 1 | ɣin | ɣin | -i | -n |
| 3rd Person Singular Gender 2 | ɣin | ɣin | -i | -n |
| 3rd Person Dual | ɣir | ɣir | -r | -r |
| 3rd Person Plural | ɣir | ɣir | -r | -r |