verbs: ||nk + ay|| > /į/ /___C ||nk + ay + naxtE|| > /įnaxte/ 'I kick you' ||nk + ay|| > /ny/ /___V ||nk + ay + įdahi|| > /nyįdahi/ 'I seek you' ||nk + ∅|| > /ax/ /___k ||nk + Ø + kte|| > /axkte/ 'I hit him' ||ay + nk|| > /yąk/ (which may undergo further changes as described above) ||ay + nk + dusi|| > /yandusi/ 'you take me' The subjunctive mode marker ||xo|| undergoes the following rule: ||xo|| > /xyo/ / i___ / į___ ||ǫ nani xyo|| 'she must have done it' The habitual mode marker ||xa|| optionally undergoes the following rule: ||xa|| > /xya/ / Vf___ ||ande xa|| > /ande xya/ 'she is always so' but ||nkaduti te xa|| > /nkaduti te xa/ 'I am still hungry' The auxiliary ande undergoes the following rule: ||ande|| > /ant/ / ___k ||nkande kąca|| > /nkant kąca/ 'I was, but' Morphology The three word classes in Biloxi are verbs, substantives (nouns and pronouns), and particles. Only first two take affixes. Verbs are always marked for person and number and may also take dative, reciprocal, reflexive, and/or instrumental markers as well as mode markers, the object specifier, and auxiliaries. They are at or immediately before the end of clauses. All nominal affixes may also be used with verbs, but nouns use a subset of the verbal affixes. They may not use dative, reciprocal, reflexive, or instrumental markers or mode markers or auxiliaries. Particles serve many functions, including noun phrase marking and acting as adverbials. Inflection Nouns Nouns may be inflectable or, as most are, non-inflectable. The former group inflects for person and number. It contains names of body parts and kin terms, which must inflect, and a few other personal possessions, with option inflection. The person markers are nk- for the first person, ay- second person, and Ø- for the third person. They may be pluralized with the marker -tu. The noun's number itself is not marked explicitly. Examples of inflected nouns are below: dodi 'throat' ndodi 'my throat' idodi 'your throat' doxtu 'their throats' adi 'father' iyadi 'your father' nkaxtu 'our father' Here are examples of optionally-inflected nouns: ti~ati 'house' nkti/nkati 'my house' doxpe 'shirt' idoxpe 'your shirt' Personal pronouns are formed by inflecting the root indi for person and number. (It may once also have been done by the demonstratives he and de.) Pronouns are always optional,