Benefactive Reflexives

Jan Ullrich jfu at centrum.cz
Wed Nov 17 21:37:28 UTC 2004


David,

thanks for correcting me. Indeed ii'c?ikcupi is a form of icu (not k?u), as
even my English translations of the sample sentences show :). I was being
sloppy.

I meant to say that I do find occurences of ic?i'c?u, the reflexive and
reflexive benefactive of k?u':

Reflexive:
Tunwe'ya ya'pi kta ic?i'c?upi. = They voluntered to go as scouts (lit.: they
gave themselves ...)

Reflexive benefactive:
Woimagaga ota ic?i'c?u. = He gave himself a lot of ammusement.


Jan






David Rood wrote:

> 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
>
> >
> > k'u is also used with ic?i in both reflexive and reflexive benefactive:
> >
> > Phezhi etaN' ii'c?ikcupi na owiN'shthuNpi.
> >
> > They took some grass for themselves and spread it to sleep on
> >
> >
> >
> > Unki'yepi etaN'haN xeya'b ii'c?ikcu.
> >
> > She has taken herself away from us.
> >
> >

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