BL accent patterns.

[Rory Larson]

Ø  From earlier: “The term is pretty clearly based on the verb ókas(‘)iŋ, ‘to look into’. In its vertitive form óglasiŋ, it should mean ‘to look into at oneself” (probably into water)

Forgive my lack of knowledge of Dakota, but do we mean ‘vertitive’, ‘reflexive’ or ‘possessive’ here? I guess it doesn’t matter to our discussion, since the G- will alternate with a full syllable in any of those cases.

Bob-

Actually, I think I’m likely the one responsible for the above quote.  ‘Vertitive’ is still a fairly new term for me.  I puzzled for a while as to which term would be best to use in that case, and hit on that one, thinking along the lines of ‘self-look’, or ‘betake oneself looking’, or perhaps ‘back-look’.  I probably should have cast it as ‘ogle oneself’, which would have made it reflexive.  Anyway, please don’t blame the Dakotanists for my questionable choice of linguistic terminology!

Best,
Rory

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