And another question for the Dhegihanists

[Justin McBride]

Bryan,

How about this one from Ks?

    gayó    s^óⁿmikkáse z^íNga     oz^óNge    khe    ophá abá                skaN
    then    wolf                little        road          the    he.was.following.it    evid

It's sentence 2 from JOD's "Raccoon and the Wolf," as told by one of his primary informants PpaháNle-Gáxli. Of course it's just the first example I've run across, but I have the impression that it's far from being the only one. 

Good luck,
-Justin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bryan James Gordon 
  To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:52 PM
  Subject: And another question for the Dhegihanists


  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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