Kappa Actant Morphology

Last Edited: 2006.Aug.02 Wed

All the actants use prefixes. Some actants distinguish singular (S in tags) and plural (P) number. The tables show the prefixes and the corresponding tags. "NA" might stand for either "Noun/Adjective" or "Nullified Argument".

Monovalent Words

The grade of the initial stem consonant is (3) except with NAS.
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Divalent Words

The "proximate" or more "animate" actant is first, fused with a direct/inverse marker, followed by the "obviative" or less "animate" actant. The grade of the initial stem consonant is determined by the latter.

Obviative Prefixes

The number in parentheses indicates the grade of the initial stem consonant. A colon indicates that the preceding vowel is lengthened. The 1st person marking is used only when the proximate prefix is 2nd person exclusive.
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Proximate Prefixes

In the tags, .D is direct and .I is inverse. Inverse means that the roles of the arguments are swapped.
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Trivalent Words

Obviative Prefixes

This table show the combinations of "indirect object" + "direct object". The column labels show the tags for the "direct objects" (usually Inanimate) and the rows labels show the tags for the "indirect objects" (usually Animate). As before, forms with 1st person marking are used only when the proximate prefix is 2nd person exclusive. Note that when the "direct object" is indefinite, the forms act like divalent forms.
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These are the most likely to change.

Proximate Prefixes

These are the same as for divalent words.