Editing Choctaw language (section)

====Noun prefixes====
Nouns have prefixes that show agreement with a possessor.<ref>Broadwell (2006:52-63)</ref> Agreement markers from class II are used on a lexically specified closed class of nouns, which includes many (but not all) of the kinship terms and body parts. This is the class that is generally labeled [[Inalienable noun|inalienable]].

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| top = {{lang|cho|sanoshkobo}}|sa- noshkobo|1S.II- head|'my head'
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| top = {{lang|cho|chinoshkobo}}|chi- noshkobo|2S.II- head|'your head'
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| top = {{lang|cho|noshkobo}}|noshkobo|head|'his/her/its/their head'
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| top = {{lang|cho|sashki}}|sa- ishki|1S.II- mother|'my mother'
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| top = {{lang|cho|chishki}}|chi- ishki|2S.II- mother|'your mother'
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Nouns that are not lexically specified for II agreement use the III agreement markers:

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| top = {{lang|cho|a̱ki}}|a̱- ki'|1S.III- father|'my father'
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| top = {{lang|cho|amofi}}|am- ofi|1S.III- dog|'my dog'
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Although systems of this type are generally described with the terms alienable and inalienable, this terminology is not particularly appropriate for Choctaw, since alienability implies a semantic distinction between types of nouns. The morphological distinction between nouns taking II agreement and III agreement in Choctaw only partly coincides with the semantic notion of alienability.