New topic -- stative pronouns with reflexives?

Jimm GoodTracks goodtracks at GBRonline.com
Tue Jan 13 23:27:47 UTC 2004


They are in IOM (Chiwere), as well as in Winnebago/ Hochank.


----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Rankin" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: New topic -- stative pronouns with reflexives?


> At LSA I was talking with David Rood and Soeren Wichmann (from Denmark)
about
> Soeren's active-stative LSA paper.  He made the point, confirmed by David,
that
> in Dakotan, reflexive verbs take the stative pronominal set as subject
prefixes.
> I don't know how that fact escaped me all this time, but I find it very
strange
> indeed, since, in Dhegiha, reflexives of active verbs take the active
subject
> pronominals exclusively.
>
> So my question is:  In the other Siouan languages are subject pronominals
of
> active verbs still active when the verb is reflexivized?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>



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