Quapaw wa-a- '1pl patient'.

R. Rankin rankin at ku.edu
Sat Jan 17 22:43:30 UTC 2004


I think Dorsey wrote morphemically, or as close as he could come to it, in the
texts and dictionary.  It might be worth checking his hand written notes on that
point though.  Bob

> > > 'tell us'         u-a'wa  gi-dha
> >
> > Wouldn't this be [wa'wagidha] on the surface?
>
> I don't know what moitivated Dorsey to record it in this fashion.  I have
> to assume he heard a difference between ua' and wa, but I don't have this
> form from elicitation.  He also records first person agents as ua'..., so
> he is consistant.



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