DEM. M-2:M good M-great He told him: O my son... that is a great good. 2 yə-ṃṃ-as i talt-ənnəs: wo-m ge-yə-nfu-yanax 3M-say-3SG.DAT to woman-3SG.GEN: DEM.M-2:F IRR-3M-benefit-1PL.DAT He told his wife: this one will benefit us. 3 yə-ṃṃ-asən: we-rwən aggʷid n ṛəḅḅi 3M-say-3PL.DAT: DEM.M-2:PL man GEN God He told them: this is a man of God. Modifying medial, referent = ▇.▇▇., different addressees: 5 ə́ ntf-ax twərdət ta-tó-m msabb-kí pick-1SG flower MOD-DEM.F-2:F because-2F I picked this flower for your (f.) sake. 6 mmwí-ɣ-asín-a i itadəm-ə́ nnəw: say-1SG-3PL.DAT-PRF to people-1SG.GEN IRR.3M-come in car MOD-DEM.F-2:PL I told my family: he will come in that car. The suffixes used to mark addressee agreement on the medial demonstrative are closely parallel to the 2nd person prepositional object suffixes: ▇▇.▇▇ -ək, ▇▇.▇▇ -əm, 2PL -wən. The most obvious typological comparison for addressee agreement is verbal allocutivity – a phenomenon best known from Basque (ALBERDI 1995), but also attested in several other languages (ANTONOV 2010). Verbal allocutivity is typically restricted to main clauses rather than subordinate clauses. Addressee agreement, however, occurs irrespective of the level of syntactic embedding, as illustrated by multiply layered possessives: 7 ɣ-wé-rwən ṣṣáħəb n jír n aggwid da-wé-rwən PRSV-DEM.M-2:PL friend GEN child GEN man MOD-DEM.M-2:PL Here is that man's child's friend. and multiply embedded subordinate clauses: 8 mmwi-ɣ-asín-a nə-xs-á aʕənʕə́ n ənni ga-nə-ħmə́ ṛ-wət say-1SG-3PL.DAT-PRF 1PL-want-PFV to_sit_down COMP IRR-1PL-look-PL.IMP how IRR-1PL-help-3SG.DAT to man MOD-DEM.M-2:PL I told them that we want to sit down to look at how to help that man. Addressee agreement must be self-consistent; when the following inconsistent sentence was proposed to him, my consultant reacted “As long as you're saying ga- š-ɣ-ak (2M.DAT), you say da-wo-k [MOD-DEM.M-2:M]”: 9 *ga-š-ɣ-ak ssanduq da-wó-m *IRR-give-1SG-2M.DAT box MOD-DEM.M-2:F I will give you that box. As the following sentence illustrates, there is no such inconsistency between a singular addressee and a plural 2nd person pronoun; after all, an object can equally well simultaneously be close to a whole group and to a single member of it:
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Sources: Siwi Addressee Agreement, Siwi Addressee Agreement, Siwi Addressee Agreement