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 Oftentimes, polypersonal marking surfaces and target the IN under certain restrictions.  When agreement marking does appear, they tend to occur with collective or mass nouns, such as the inherently collective ''iyuššit'', and only with certain verbs, particularly ones indicating movement, and even then ''iyuššit'' triggers agreement marking in a small fraction among these verbs.
-Oftentimes irregularities in gender-number concord may appear. An example where agreement marking is lacking with the very same collective noun follows in the next example.  Note that the verb ''-adu-'' ("be many"), unlike ''-wakkay-'', is not a motion verb.  The lack of an overt agreement marker with ''-adu-'' points towards a zero-valent interpretation:
+{{Gloss
+|phrase = Nayyakiyuštaran.
+| IPA =
+| morphemes = nayyaki-iyuššit-ar-an
+| gloss = gather.together-storm.cloud-PST-INTR
+| translation = Storm clouds gathered.
+}}
+Oftentimes irregularities in gender-number concord may appear. An example where agreement marking is lacking with the very same collective noun follows in the next example.  Note that the verb ''-adu-'' ("be many"), unlike ''-nayyaki-'', is not a motion verb.  The lack of an overt agreement marker with ''-adu-'' points towards a zero-valent interpretation:
 {{Gloss