entity and those in which they are not. In the former case, the instrumental suffix - is added to the prenominal genitive marker, and the possessed noun take the postnominal demonstrative genitive ending. In the latter case, the instrumental - attaches to the postnominal genitive ending on the possessed noun, and the prenominal suffix remains unchanged. The following table shows genitive suffixes for first and second person possessors. Prenominal forms include a distinction between first and second person while the distinction in postnominal forms is made by adding the pronominal verbal inflection for the appropriate person. Genitive suffixes with a third-person possessor are shown in the following table: Prenominal forms for the objective and instrumental are formed by suffixing the prenominal forms given above to - or , respectively. Independent pronouns also exist in Kwakʼwala. Pronouns have verbal and nominal forms. Verbal forms inflect like other verbs. Nominal forms occur in subject, object, and instrumental forms. The full set of pronouns is shown in the following table: Object forms are clearly related to "to come" (in the first person) and "to go" (in the second and third person). Syntax Kwakʼwala formally distinguishes only three classes of words: predicates/substantives, particles, and exclamatory forms. Nouns and verbs are distinguished mainly by syntactic context. Thus, the bare form "sit" is a verb; combined with an article-like particle, it serves as a noun: "the one who sits" . A minimal sentence consists of a predicate. Although that is syntactically simple, it is not necessarily semantically impoverished. The rich morphological system of Kwakʼwala allows the expression of many features in a single predicate: "I shall try to get you to be my wife"; "I have this one for my husband (lit. I am husband owner of him)" . In sentences with greater syntactic complexity, word order is identical to the order in which inflectional morphemes are added to a stem, stem/predicate-subject-direct object-instrument-direct object: A number of clitics are used to mark agreement with nouns, including clitics for definiteness/deixis and case (including accusative and instrumental case). Clitics are positioned at the left edge of the noun they agree with but lean phonologically to their left. The result is a systematic mismatch between syntactic and phonological constituent structure such that on the surface, each prenominal word appears to be inflected to agree with the following noun. That can be seen in the preceding example: the sentence-initial predicate