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supernatural beings, animals, and plants. All others are
inanimate.
The first criterion is whether the predicate governs
agreement with proclitic or enclitic. Recall that predicate
NP's are excluded from all agreement; other predicates must
either govern one or the other mode, with the exception of a
few ambivalent cases discussed below. If it is a proclitic
predicate, the agreement is obligatory, whatever the nature
of the subject.
If, however, it is an enclitic (non-NP) predicate, the
next criterion is whether the subject is animate. If so, or
in the case of an inanimate subject, if the predicate phrase
is inchoative in the sense discussed above, then enclitic
agreement is optional. In all other cases agreement is
prohibited.
4.2 Subject Omission
Since proclitics and enclitics on the predicate are
pronominal prefixes and suffixes which cross-reference
subjects or agents, it is possible for Acehnese sentences to
appear without subjects. Subject omission is very common in
sentences in which the subjects are known. The most commonly
omitted subjects are those of the first and second persons.
In daily conversations, such sentences as the following are
very common.