"WOUND"

[Rgraczyk at aol.com]

I have tended to interpret the Crow citation forms as a mostly phonological 
innovation, since Hidatsa seems to lack them.  Crow seems to have decided that 
it doesn't like words that end in i(i), u(u) or aa.  There are exceptions, 
however, since vocatives (always) and adverbs (mostly) do not use the citation 
form.  However, the fact that there are several suffixes that follow the 
citation form rather than the stem, as John notes, leads one to wonder if there isn't 
a deeper historical explanation.

Randy
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