telicity marking in Siouan and Caddoan

[David Erschler]

Bryan, thanks!

I am still very curious about "in"-adverbials: perhaps someone of the list
subscribers has encountered them in their language(s) of expertise.

With best wishes,
David

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Bryan James Gordon <linguista at gmail.com>wrote:

> Speaking for Siouan in general (if I may be permitted), the most common
> aspect distinction in the family is between continuative and an unmarked
> non-continuative. I am not familiar with the reasons we call it
> "continuative" as opposed to "imperfective", but I recall being relatively
> convinced by whatever argument I heard in the past. I do know that the
> unmarked is used for statives. Other marked aspects are common, too: I think
> most Siouan languages also have some sort of iterative or habitual, and it
> is common for lexical verbs to mark aspectual and aktionsart information
> like "suddenly", "repeatedly", "abruptly". Positional verbs often mark
> information like stativity, perfect aspect, inferred or derived states,
> immediacy, continuativity, etc.
>
> As for Omaha and Ponca in particular, generally the atelic "for" temporal
> phrases you refer to are unmarked:
> Míⁿdoⁿbe-wiⁿ-égoⁿ oⁿgthíⁿi.
> hour-one-about we.sat
> "We sat for about an hour."
> Wáthiⁿ-athái-égoⁿ míⁿdoⁿbe ánaxti-égoⁿ ahíi-tʰe
> them.have-they.go-as hour what.number.AUG-about they.arrived-C
> "After they chased them for a good number of hours"
>
> I am not familiar with any telic "in"-type temporal phrases.
>
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> Bryan James Gordon, MA
> Joint PhD Program in Linguistics and Anthropology
> University of Arizona
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Dr. David Erschler

Independent University of Moscow
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Moscow 119002
Russia
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