Incorporating post-positions
The post-position-k’wu=t/-k’u=t ‘on’, as in:
(1)
(2)
The labialization of the initial k’ in the 3rd person is the morphophonemic trace of the 3rd person proximate prefix mu=-.
The post-position k’wu=t can incorporate into the verb as a locative-adverbial prefix at the outermost slot (except for the object pronoun), as in:
(3)
This post-position may be related to a verbal stem meaning ‘put’, as in:
(4)
Consider next the instrumental post-position-ł, displaying several pronominal variants, as in:
(5)
(6)
Incorporated instances of this post-position, with the frozen proximate pronoun mu=-, can be seen in:
(7)
A richer array of instrumental incorporation can be found in instrument nominalizations, as in:
(8)
Finally, consider the purpose post-position, with a range of pronominal variant:
(9)
This post-position may be found unincorporated, as in:
(10)
But it can also incorporate and lexicalize, as in:
(11)
