Question re: Omaha-Ponca

[John Koontz]

As far as I recall, the dhaN article is present in OP, but not in the rest of Dhegiha.  But the others do have the various compounds of this with motion verbs and causatives etc. as verbs of placement and doing suddenly.  inaN, inaNnaN, etc.  

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:21:03 -0600
From: dvkanth2010 at GMAIL.COM
Subject: Question re: Omaha-Ponca
To: SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu

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.
DaveDavid KaufmanLinguistic Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Kansas
Director, Kaw Nation Language Program


 		 	   		  
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