Question re: Omaha-Ponca

David Kaufman dvkanth2010 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 27 21:21:03 UTC 2014


Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how the article ðą is actually used in
OP.  According to the Omaha texts, it seems to be used often after body
parts, but I notice it is also used for other non-body part nouns as well,
which JOD sometimes glosses as 'object'.  I'm particularly curious because
Biloxi sometimes uses the suffix -yą (which would correlate with ðą) after some
body part terms as well. I don't see anything similar being used in Kaw or
Osage, unless I'm missing something .

Thanks.

Dave

David Kaufman
Linguistic Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Kansas
Director, Kaw Nation Language Program
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