Stem 'to come' (was Re: Archaic A1 p- in Dakotan)

[David Rood]

I don't understand how the analogy would work.
	David


David S. Rood
Professor of LInguistics
Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet zu Koeln
D-50923 Koeln
email: rood at uni-koeln.de
email: rood at colorado.edu


On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Robert L. Rankin wrote:

>
> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 BARudes at aol.com wrote:
>
> > extent it is relevant, the corresponding stem for 'arrive, come' in Catawba
> > is -uu?-, not -huu?- as sometimes listed elsewhere (e.g., Siebert 1945, which
> > contains a number of underanalyzed forms).  The conjugation is: c^uu?- 'I
> > come', yuu?- 'you come', huu?- 'he comes' (where h- is the 3rd singular
> > marker), etc.
>
> That's an interesting observation in light of the fact that 'come' is a
> verb for which the sound correspondences are irregular.  Several languages
> treat it as {hu:}, but Dakotan (perhaps others) has {?u}.  And there are
> also interesting correspondences between syllable-initial and
> syllable-final glottalization across Siouan.  If the Catawban 3rd person
> can definitively be shown to have been h- and Siebert proved wrong on
> this, we would have a good analogical model to explain the Siouan
> reflexes.
>
> Bob
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