And another question for the Dhegihanists

Bryan James Gordon linguista at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 01:52:04 UTC 2009


Does anyone know whether any Dhegiha languages allow sentences with a bare
argument (either subject or object), followed by a determined argument,
followed by the verb? i.e., N - N - D - V

Can't find any or remember any for the life of me. I wonder if bare N's
generally have to stay closer to the verb than determined ones do.

(I'm not counting examples where the first one is the possessor of the
second, as these have a different structure, e.g. Rabbit his.son the knew)

- Bryan
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