Benefactive Reflexives

ROOD DAVID S rood at spot.Colorado.EDU
Wed Nov 17 19:56:28 UTC 2004


Jan,

both of these examples are of icu, not k'u; that verb takes an unexpected
extra -k- before the -c- in the suus forms and (apparently) with the
reflexive, too.

David

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> k'u is also used with ic?i in both reflexive and reflexive benefactive:
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> Phezhi etaN' ii'c?ikcupi na owiN'shthuNpi.
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> They took some grass for themselves and spread it to sleep on
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> Unki'yepi etaN'haN xeya'b ii'c?ikcu.
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> She has taken herself away from us.
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> But perhaps I got lost a bit in your discussion of benefactive person
> markers in place of plain patients.
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> Jan
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