Omaha/Dakota k?uN cognates.

ROOD DAVID S rood at spot.Colorado.EDU
Sat Jun 24 19:39:08 UTC 2000


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
Campus Box 295
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu
>
> Do articles always precede demonstratives in Dakotan?  In Dhegiha it's the
> other way around!
>
The demonstrative may begin the NP, or follow the article at the end of
the NP; the latter is more common:
	
	he/hena wiNyaN ki/k?uN 'the/those/ woma/en'

	or wiNyAn ki/k?uN  he/hena.

	But of course there are lots of compounds with initial
demonstrative roots.

	David



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