Lakota wa- 'variety object'

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Fri Dec 12 05:21:18 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Carolyn Q. wrote:
> where one wa is the "things" or "folks" valence reducer;
>  and
> the other wa multiplies the instances of the action

I'd concede that the instance multiplier wa- - the variety object wa- in
Regina's terminology - would definitely be a fourth sort of wa- - even in
a non-position class approach to Siouan morphology.  I haven't quite given
up on the extra wa- plugging into some case role, though I admit I aven't
a clue what!



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