
The language exhibits verbal person marking which agrees with the object or patient of the sentence (Siewierska 2008). An example is Yawa, where the 3sg prefix <i>r-</i> attaches to the verb and agrees with the patient, as in <i>Dorpinus po Marianna r-anepata</i> ‘Dorpinus ERG.3sg.M Marianna 3sg.F.OBJ-hit’ for ‘Dorpinus is/was hitting Marianne’ (Siewierska 2008).

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>Siewierska, Anna. 2008. Verbal Person Marking. In Haspelmath et al. (2008), chapter 102. Available online at <a href="http://wals.info/feature/102">http://wals.info/feature/102</a href>.

