Udi Morphology 3. Agglutination in Udi is suffixing, infixing,and in rare instances prefixing. Most of the grammatical elements of Udi areaffixes, that is elements that are restricted to a specific word class. 3.1.1 Head and Dependent Marking Udi is both head and dependent marking, cp.
Dependent marking is done with the help of case suffixes.
Agglutinating grammatical morphemes tend to follow a fixed order though especially with verbs the order may vary considerably. Note thateach basic function can show a considerable degree of metaphorization. The major agglutination chain is marked by italics. All personal agreement clitics are fusional insofar as they do not use specific number markers. Certain verbal suffixes encode both a particple and a speicifc tense form, etc.