And another question for the Dhegihanists

[Bryan James Gordon]

Yes, you're right Justin. O&P have examples like that, too. I wonder if a
better way to word my question would have been "inspecific bare arguments".

2009/12/8 Justin McBride <jmcbride at kawnation.com>

>  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 <linguista at gmail.com>
> *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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Joint PhD Program in Linguistics and Anthropology
University of Arizona
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