the bottom of it." Syntax In Musqueam, a sentence minimally consists of a predicate. Predicate heads can be bare roots (e.g. "far"), derived forms (e.g. "black bear"), inflected forms (e.g. "help him/her/them"), and forms including both derivational and inflectional affixes (e.g. "name-base-transitive," as in "name a price"). Predicate heads can also be words that are definable morphologically. This includes verbs (e.g. "go"), adjectives (e.g. "big"), nouns (e.g. "man"), members of the closed sets of personal words (see the following section), and interrogative words (e.g. "what"). A verbal predicate may be expanded with the addition of one or two auxiliary verbs before the head and/or one or more adverbs preceding or following the head. ʔi(AUX) . "I am helping him." Two pairs of verbs function as auxiliaries, setting the predicate within a spatial context. The choice between the locative pair, /ʔi/ "be here" and /niʔ/ "be there," depends on the location of the speaker relative to whatever the predicate refers to. The directional auxiliaries, /ʔəmí/ "come" and /ném/ "go," identify motions toward or away from the speaker. ƛʼ(ADV) . "I did it again." Verb heads are also found with verb complements and compound verbs. ("try") . "He tried to fly." Like verbal predicates, adjectival and nominal predicates can be expanded with other elements. Nominal predicate heads can appear alone, followed by particles and adverbs. swə́yʼqeʔ cən. "I am a man." swə́yʼqeʔ čxʷ ƛʼe. "You're a man too." Syntactically, adjectival and nominal predicate heads appear with auxiliaries less often than verbs. Adjectives and nouns can appear together in nominal predicates expanded with adjectives. A nominal predicate head can be preceded by a modifying adjective or numeral. ʔə́yʼ("good") čxʷ("you") swə́yʼqeʔ("man"). "You're a good man." Adjectives usually appear as predicate heads accompanied by particles only, but they can be preceded by auxiliaries and adverbs acting as intensifiers. kʼʷámʼkʼʷəmʼ cən. "I'm strong." ni(AUX) ʔukʼʷámʼkʼʷəmʼ. "He [absent] is strong all right." x̌ə́ɬ(ADV) qʼáqʼəyʼ. "He was very sick." Person markers The Halkomelem person markers (forms that correspond in meaning to English personal pronouns) include a set of affixes, one set of particles, and two sets of words (personal and possessive). As mentioned in the "Morphology" section, there is no dual number or inclusive/exclusive distinction in the language, however, some scholars believe that the forms identified here as second-person "singular" were once used in addressing a married couple, a pair of brothers, or even a family, while the