Bruce Ingham's "Nominal and Verbal Status ..." (fwd)

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

Yes I was thinking of Lakota examples, but the comparative
examples are interesting.

Bruce

>
> > The -ka ending in waoka 'marksman' etc I have taken to be a
> > nominalizer, since I don't think waoka could occur with wa- or ma- ie
> > wawaoka or wamaoka 'I am a marksman'.  I presume only waoka hemacha.
> > Can anyone comment or give other examples.
>
> I can give diachronic examples of -ka as a nominalizer (and with stative
> verbs), e.g., Da c^haNte' 'heart', OP naN'de 'heart' vs. Wi naNaNc^ge'
> 'heart', if I recall these properly.  I think Mandan also has the *ka in
> this ans some other body part nouns.  A number of Winnebago animal terms
> have *ka (as -ge/C__ ~ -k/V__).  In stative verbs, cf. Da thaN'ka, OP
> ttaN'ga vs. frozen c^aN in compounds in Wi.  I suspect, however, you mean
> other specifically Dakotan examples where -ka precludes inflection!
>
> JEK
>


Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS