Editing Slavey language (section)

==Morphology==
Slavey, like many Athabascan languages, has a very specific morpheme order in the verb in which the stem must come last. The morpheme order is shown in the following chart.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position !! Description
|-
| Position 000 || Adverb
|-
| Position 00 || Object of incorporated postposition
|-
| Position 0 || Incorporated postposition
|-
| Position 1 || Adverbial
|-
| Position 2 || Distributive (yá-)
|-
| Position 3 || Customary (na-)
|-
| Position 4 || Incorporated stem
|-
| Position 5 || Number
|-
| Position 6 || Direct Object
|-
| Position 7 || Deictic
|-
| Position 8 || Theme/derivation
|-
| Position 9 || Aspect/derivation
|-
| Position 10 || Conjugation
|-
| Position 11 || Mode
|-
| Position 12 || Subject
|-
| Position 13 || Classifier
|-
| Position 14 || Stem
|}<ref name=Rice>{{cite book|last=Rice|first=Keren|title=A Grammar of Slave|date=1989|publisher=Walter de Gruyter & Co|location=Berlin|isbn=3110107791}}</ref>

A Slavey verb must minimally have positions 13 and 14 to be proper. Here are some examples:<ref name="Rice" />

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="7" |xayadedhtí
|-
|Morphemes
|'''xa'''
|'''ya'''
|'''de'''
|'''d'''
|'''h'''
|'''tí'''
|-
|Position
|1
|1
|9
|13
|13
|14
|-
|Translation
| colspan="6" |'S/he prayed'
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |godee
|-
|Morphemes
|'''go'''
|'''∅'''
|'''deeh'''
|-
|Position
|6
|13
|14
|-
|Translation
| colspan="3" |'S/he talks'
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="5" |dagodee
|-
|Morphemes
|'''da'''
|'''go'''
|'''∅'''
|'''dee'''
|-
|Position
|4
|6
|13
|14
|-
|Translation
| colspan="4" |'S/he stutters' 
|}