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 plral object. [...] The independent order verb in (16b) begins with a pronominal clitic never found in the conjunct, here signaling the 2nd person subject. The verb stem is immediately followed by an Agr morpheme agreeing with the 3rd person object, also not found with the conjunct order. 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), Pag. 407