Information / nouns vs. verbs

[Koontz John E]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Linda Cumberland wrote:
> I have two attested forms in Assiniboine taken from conversations:
> thi tha 'his/her house' and thipi tha 'his/her/their house'.

I take it that Assiniboine lacks that -wa extension that occurs with
separate tha- in Teton (I think)?

> I have never seen forms with pi doubled, as in the suggested "thipipi"
> as a plural for houses, nor in any other form.  In fact, it has been
> my understanding that this could not occur (haplology? syntactic
> scope? I'd be glad to hear other people's explanations.)

Remind me - is haplology the techical term for 'it sounds really weird if
you repeat it, so they don't'?  I think there's a scribal joke - haplogy
...

JEK