<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear David,<br>Another example for you---not a historical source so much as a synchronic derivation:<br>In Patwin (Wintuan family, Penutian "superfamily", of California) the verb <i>lelu</i> 'make' can be reflexivized to express the meaning 'become'. Similar to Dr. Dryer's Walman example, but with 'make' rather than 'do' (<i>lelu</i> never means 'do' in Patwin). Also perhaps more agentive than prototypical 'become', though sometimes translated that way.<br><br>(1) ču pi depi no:p lelu-nana-t'i.<br></div> I DECL also deer make-REFL-FUT<br></div> 'I'm going to turn into a deer too.' (Whistler 1977:169)<br><br></div>(2) k'učiʔa-ro p'o:rma-ro bo: win lelu-nan-mu [...]<br></div> small-PTCP bad-PTCP be person make-REFL-SBJV<br></div> (He) made himself a small and ugly person. (Radin MS:103)<br><div><div><div><br><br></div>Whistler, Kenneth W. 1977. Deer and Bear Children. Speakers: Nora Lowell and Harry Lorenzo. In Northern California Texts, edited by Victor Golla and Shirley Silver, 158-179. International Journal of American Linguistics Native American Texts Series 2(2). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<br><div><br></div><div>Radin, Paul. MS. Patwin Texts. Collected 1932, from speaker Anderson Lowell. In the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society. Call number: 497.3 B63c P4b6-7.<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>-Lewis<br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>Lewis C. Lawyer<br>PhD Candidate in Linguistics<br>University of California, Davis<br><a href="mailto:lclawyer@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">lclawyer@ucdavis.edu</a></div></div>
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