User:Stevey7788/Mam pronouns

Mam has no independent pronouns (England 1983:155). Rather, pronouns in Mam always exist as bound morphemes.

Below is a table of Set A (ergative) and Set B (absolutive) prefixes from England (1983:56). (Note: The terms "Set A" and "Set B" are frequently used by Mayanists to describe the ergative systems typical of Mayan languages.)

Phonologically conditioned allomorphs are as follows.
 * n- ~ w-
 * n- /__C
 * w- /__V
 * Ø ~ tz- ~ tz'- ~ k-
 * k- /potential
 * tz'- /__V initial root, non-potential
 * tz- /__uul 'arrive here', iky' 'pass by', non-potential
 * Ø- /__C, non-potential
 * -a ~ -ya
 * -ya /V__ ; In the first person in post-vowel environments, -ya varies freely with -ky'a and -y'.
 * -a /C__

When Set A prefixes can also be used with nouns. In this context, the Set A prefixes become possessives.
 * n- 'my'
 * t- 'your (sg.)'
 * t- 'his, her, its'
 * q- 'our (exclusive)'
 * q- 'our (inclusive)'
 * ky- 'your (pl.)'
 * ky- 'their'

Some paradigmatic examples from England (1983) are given below. Note that "Ø-" designates a null prefix. Additionally, ma is an aspectual word meaning 'recent past.'

The following Set B person markers are used for non-verbal predicates (i.e., nouns, adjectives). Also, in statives, aa can be omitted when the rest of the stative is a non-enclitic (in other words, a separate, independent word).

Paradigmatic examples from England (1983:76) are given below.