Question re: Dhegiha and other Siouan quotatives

[ROOD DAVID S]

Jan, I am answering without looking things up, so be prepared for some 
mis-remembering.  I seem to recall that "s^i" 'command" requires object 
affixes on the embedded verb: 'I told him to help you' would be "onichiye 
was^i".  I thought that pattern was pretty common.  What about something 
like 'realize' as in 'I realized I was wrong' or 'I realized you were 
wrong"?

 	Best,
 	David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Jan Ullrich wrote:

>> Several people have noted (not sure whether published or not) that Lakota
> complements
>> to verbs that require same-subject for both verbs (e.g.
>> 'try') do not allow affixes on the first verb, while those which permit a
> change of subject (like 'want')
>> do require that both verbs be marked.
>
> I have been under the impression that there are only two Lakota verbs that
> require both verbs in a complex predicate to be conjugated. They are chin
> 'to want' and okihi 'to be able to'.
> If there is data pointing to other verbs that behave like this it would be
> useful to know.
>
> Jan
>