<div dir="ltr">Dear Arok and Kees,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your input; in most of Kees' examples, âta appears as the first element of the verbal complex, before the personal prefixes and the e=, but in his first example, âta appears between e and the verb stem; my knowledge of Cree is really minimal, so would something like (1) be a correct analysis for the first verb? </div><div>(1) e=âta=macitwâ-yek</div><div> conjunct=concessive=act_in_an_evil_way(VAI)-2pl(conjunct_order)</div><div><br></div><div>If this is the case, the same text attests examples of both e=âta=V and âta=e=V.</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-10-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Wolvengrey, Arok <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awolvengrey@firstnationsuniversity.ca" target="_blank">awolvengrey@firstnationsuniversity.ca</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">I have no evidence of ata-, though âta- (with the long vowel and thus the same as the free concessive) has been recorded. I suspect, however, that this may have come from <an>
instance<s> of intrusive material occurring within the preverb string, such that this might be a fairly rare occurrence. Sorry I can't at this time comment further on whether there is any real difference between the two.<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Algonquiana [<a href="mailto:algonquiana-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">algonquiana-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>] on behalf of Guillaume Jacques [<a href="mailto:rgyalrongskad@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgyalrongskad@gmail.com</a>]<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Algonquiana] ata- and âta 'although' in Cree<br>
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<div>I am looking for information on the use of the subordinator concessive prefix
<i>ata</i>- in Cree (derived from <i>âta </i>'although'). I tried to find examples in several text collections by Ahenakew and Wolfart, but could only find examples of the free word <i>âta</i>. If any of you has references on the use of this prefix (in particular,
the difference with the free word), and examples sentences from any variety of Cree, I would be very grateful.<br clear="all">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques</a><br><div><a href="http://himalco.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">http://himalco.hypotheses.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://panchr.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">http://panchr.hypotheses.org/</a></div></div>
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