(In)dependent body parts in Dakotan?

[David Rood]

When I tried to work on the Lakhota dictionary a few years ago, I wanted
to put the correct possessed form for each noun into the entry for that
noun as part of its grammatical information.  I found something similar to
what Regina found, only more extreme: many body part terms were simply
unacceptable when possessed in any construction whatsoever.  I would have
to be back in Boulder to look at the details, but that surprised me.

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