PAME NOUN INFLECTION 0. Introduction 1. Prefixes 2. Stem-initial consonant 3. Tone-stress patterns 4. Suffixes 0. This article describes the inflection of nouns in Pame.l Nouns are inflected for number of the noun, number of the possessor, and person of the possessor. These categories are expressed by (1) prefixes, (2) stem-initial consonant modification, (3) tone-stress changes, or (4) suffixes, and often redundantly by two or more of these systems at once.2 The four systems Pame is an Otomanguean language spoken by about 3,700 people in central Mexico. The variety described is Central Pame, spoken in Santa Maria Acapulco, on the southeast border of San Luis Potosi. The 1970 census places the population at 2,700. The mutually unintelligible North Pame accounts for the other 1,000 speakers.

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