OP Accent (was RE: OP stative verb ablaut?)

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Feb 10 08:48:42 UTC 2004


Another vocative shift, though in ths case it is between the vocative and
the referential form.  Ths is very regular in the texts.

nudaN'haNga=akha 'the warleader'
nu'daNhaNga' 'o warleader'

I find both nu'daN and nudaN' for 'warpath'.  I didn't notice a
conditioning factor.

I did notice one anu'daN 'I go on the warpath'.  I hadn't previously
realized this form could be inflected, and I'm not sure it is very
frequently.

JEK



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