Noncon gurational tense in Wambaya

1 The data contained in this paper is based on eldwork conducted by Rachel Nordlinger. She would like to express her gratitude to the Wambaya community for teaching her their language, especially to Molly Grueman, Mavis Hogan and Minnie Nimara. We are also grateful to Mar ia-Eugenia Ni~ no, Peter Sells and Jane Simpson for valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. Of course, none of these people are to be held responsible for remaining errors and inadequacies. 2 In order to focus most clearly on the issue under discussion, the examples in this paper have been kept as simple as possible. Examples are either naturally-occurring, or were constructed and checked in elicitation sessions in order to determine the structure of the paradigms. For more detailed information about Wambaya see Nordlinger (in press). The following abbreviations are used: a `transitive subject', acc `accusative case', awy `direction away', du `dual', erg `ergative/locative case', f `feminine', fut `future tense', hab `habitual aspect', hyp `hypothetical', imp `imperative', irr `irrealis mood', m `masculine', neg `negative', nfut `non-future tense', npst `non-past tense', o `transitive object', pl `plural', pres `present tense', prog `progressive aspect', pst `past tense', s `intransitive subject', sg `singular', th `thematic consonant', twd `direction towards', unm `unmarked in ection'.