Miluk transitive verb morphology

Hierarchical marking

The system of case-role marking in Miluk has two levels. On the clause level, noun phrases have an ergative pattern of case marking, as we have seen in Section 3. However, at the level of morphological marking on the verb interacting with the enclitic person markers, Miluk displays a direct-inverse system, quite similar to the one found in Algonquian languages.

The basic theorectical framework of the direct-inverse system is described in Doty's dissertation, so I will concentrate on the mophological features here. The core system is made up of four categories:

Local:


Inverse:



Direct:

First person acting on second person:
Second person acting on first person:

Third person acting on first/second person:



First/second/third person acting on third person:

-ām̓i
-ai

-ūn
-īn
-ət

-a₁-, -ā₁-
-a₂-, -ā₂-
-a

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