Biloxi nominal markers

[Rankin, Robert L]

That's right.  It's Biloxi -di, or -ni after a nasal V.
 
Sara Trechter has a somewhat similar function for -(r)e in Mandan, even though earlier workers portrayed it as "epenthetic".  Mandan use isn't apparently restricted to first mention.

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Rory M Larson
Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 7:04 PM
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Subject: Biloxi nominal markers



> Dave Kaufman has discovered that in Biloxi -re/-ri is used to mark nominals at first mention in a discourse.

Is this the same as the -di I'm seeing on a lot of nouns and verbs in the Biloxi texts of the 1909/1912 Dorsey/Swanton Biloxi/Ofo collection?

Rory