1st person/2nd person subject object combinations in Timucua

The verbal prefixes of Timucua seem to follow the following template:

(object agr)-(applicative)-(subject agr)-VERB ROOT

The agreement prefixes are

• ni-  1st person
• chi- 2nd person

The same prefixes are used for both subject and object agreement.  They are not in the same agreement slot because the applicative na- prefix follows the object agreement and precedes the subject agreement.

However, there is an apparent restriction that there cannot be an overt object prefix and an overt subject prefix at the same time.  If there is a 1st or 2nd person object, 1st or 2nd person subject agreement is shown by

• a suffix on the verb, or
• a prefix on a separate verb

Examples:

1612 Cat, f78r-78v

1612 Cat, f70v

1612 Cat, f55v

Conf F vi

1612 Cat, f65v

The following examples have 2nd person subject and 1st person object.

'What do you say about us?" Conf, f22v-23r

1612 Cat, f20v

The following (most excellent) example shows both combinations -- note that in each one the object is shown by preverbal agreement and the subject by postverbal:

Conf, f28v -29