Potawatomi verbs are inflected for tense, negation, and agreement in two general patterns, called the "independent" and "conjunct" patterns or "orders" ("orders" because the order of negation and the verb differs in independent and conjunct inflected verbs). In the two examples given in (16) the verb is inflected for a 2nd person plural subject and a 3rd person plural object. The conjunct order verb in (16a) shows a negative prefix before the verb stem. Following the stem is an Agr morpheme whose phonological realization is sensitive to the features of both subject and object. The last suffix realizes a preterit Tns morpheme. [...] Following this agreement suffix is the negative suffix characteristic of the independent order, as opposed to the negative prefix found in the conjunct order verb shown in (16a).
- Halle & Marantz (2004), a pag.407