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Verb Morphology

 * Verbs are more complicated than nouns in Kiliwa language
 * There is more verb prefixes present, and less within suffixes and infixes
 * The prefixes demonstrate more structure within the grammar

Conjugation of the verbs

 * The conjugation allows us to tell what the action is doing and taking place in the verb
 * Example in Kiliwa: Conjugation of Verb Tmaa (eat) (cite spanish article)

EX: I presented (cite in spanish article)
Past Future (cite spanish article)

Noun Morphology

 * In the Kiliwa language they are marked by the definite and indefinite

Determiner NP


 * The kiliwa has 3 degree of distance that appear in the third person pronoun

EX:

The demonstrative NP

 * Kiliwa language is also  measured in the independent third-person pronoun in the demonstrative Np

Ex:

Mi-čaw → ‘these;they’ → (near speaker)

paa-čaw → ‘those;they → (near hearer)

ñaa-čaw → “those;they → (far from both)

mi-t čam 	‘This/(s)he leaves (it)’

mi-čaw-t čaam-u → ‘These/they leave (it)’

mi-m ʔ-saaw  	  ‘I see this one/him/her’

mi-čaw=m=xwaq-m ʔ-čam → ‘I leave with these/them’

mi-čaw-l ʔ-saaw  	  ‘I looked into these one/them’

Gender Markers

 * If they refer to a person, animal or male they add Kumeey
 * If they refer to woman or female animal they add Kekoo

Axis (cite spanish article)

 * Ex: Just delete the rest and have simple kumeey is male and kekoo is femlae