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CHAPTER 4<br />

AGREEMENT SYSTEM<br />

Acehnese has an agreement system which is manifested in<br />

verbs and adjectives and some other words, especially<br />

adverbs. The system is unique in the sense that it is not<br />

quite the same as the agreement known in many Indo-European<br />

languages. Agreement in Acehnese is actually a kind of<br />

cross-referencing marked by pronominal clitics. These<br />

consist of proclitics and enclitics — the prefixal and<br />

suffixal forms of pronouns. Sometimes the terms 'prefix<br />

agreement marker' is used for proclitics and 'suffix<br />

agreement marker' for enclitics.<br />

1. a) Gopnyan geu-jak keunoe baroe.<br />

He, 3r-go to-here yesterday<br />

'He came here yesterday.'<br />

b) *Gopnyan jak keunoe baroe.<br />

He, go to-here yesterday<br />

2. a) Di kamoe hana meu-turi gopnyan.<br />

SFC weexc NEG lexc-recognize he-<br />

' We do not recognize him.'<br />

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