Interrogative Indefinites in Siouan

[Erik D Gooding]

I'll jump in on a side note, have you gotten takuni as 'nothing' without
the negative sni. Doesn't takun/takunl vary between southern Lakota and
Northern Lakota as well?

Erik

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Bruce Ingham wrote:

>
> In reply to Shanon West's questions
>
> Good question, I'm curious about that myself.  I thought takuni was
> 'nothing' as opposed to 'anything'.  Comments on that would be
> appreciated.  Perhaps though, they mean much the same thing.
>
> In fact takuni is 'nothing', takunl spelt thus but pronounced takun is
> 'anything'
>
> >
>
> >         I have seen tohanhci for 'ever' as in tohanhci ekta yai he
> >'have you ever been there?' and tokiyetu cha for 'anywhere' as in
> >tokiyetu ca he wanlaka he 'have you seen him anywhere?', but they
> >seem to be rarely used.
>
> Where have you seen this?  I could really use some more data on this topic,
> myself.
> taohanhci is from a textbook called Lakota Wounspe wowapi from
> Pine Ridge.  Tokiyetu ca is from a previous consultant so it is 'field
> notes'
>
>
> Shannon West
>
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Victoria
> Box 3045
> Victoria, B.C.
> V8W 3P4
> (250) 721-7421 (Grad Student's Office)
>
> shanwest at uvic.ca
>
> Dr. Bruce Ingham
> Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
> SOAS
>
>