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nd
2 MAS -
nd
2 FEM -

rd
3 -

Sentences (24a-d), (25a-c) and (26a-d) and tables ( 4-9) clarify that verbs are inflected
for number, person, honorificity according to all three tenses, past, present and future.
All number, person, honorificity markers are different as per tenses. Not only with

tense system, has the verb showed agreement, but with different aspects and moods
also.

If verb has an aspect, concords suffixes follow the auxiliary stem of 'be'. Agreement

markers agree with auxiliary 'be' in perfective aspects as in sentences (27a,b), 28(a-c)
and 29(a-c). The perfective marker is suffixed to the verb stem. Different agreement

markers for all three perfective aspects are suffixed to the auxiliary 'be'. None of the
aspectual markers is affected by agreement. The following examples illustrate this:

(58)

a. 

---

I see-PERF AUX-PST-1

'I had seen.'

b. 

---

You see-PERF AUX-PST-2(NH)

'You had seen.'

c. 

---

I see-PERF AUX-PRES-1

'I have seen.'

d. 

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