Two object pronouns in a transitive verb

Bruce Ingham bi1 at soas.ac.uk
Fri Mar 17 15:46:00 UTC 2000


I'm sure I've seen niwichak'upi 'they gave you (in marriage ) to them'
somewhere, probably Deloria's Dakota Texts
Bruce

vanvalin at acsu.buffalo.edu wrote:

> When I was working on my dissertation, I got  ni-wicha-wa-k'u 'I give you
> to them' once.  I imagine this reflects more my youthful overexuberance
> during elicitation than a real form in the language.
>
> Van
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