Michigamea (Re: (O)maha)

[Rankin, Robert L]

So maybe Michigamea is a "mirror image" language, like the kind of
finite-state grammars Chomsky used to talk about in Syntactic
Structures.  Just Algonquian, but starting from the ends of the words
and going forward!  Then wi/we would be a prefix!  With only about 4
words, it's definitely finite.  And there you are!

Bob

> Right, the /-si(i)w-/ negative often seen in Ojibwe & Miami is a
fusion of a diminutive suffix (the part with the 's') with an old
dubitative suffix (the part with the 'w'). My point was just that the
leap from an old Algonquian suffix to a prefix in an apparently Siouan
language seems unlikely.