<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 12/05/2001 10:15:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Rgraczyk@aol.com wrote:<BR>
> Crow provides evidence for two distinct prefixes: ii (long vowel)<BR>
> 'instrumental', and i' (short vowel, accented) 'locative'. Instrumental ii<BR>
> is a postposition, ...<BR>
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That is, the syntax of the instrumental construction is [NP]=ii V? (Or<BR>
maybe ii isn't enclitic?) That's very nice! I think you've mentioned<BR>
this before, but somehow it didn't sink in that the ii was not part of the<BR>
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Actually, the ii instrumental is often proclitic on the verb, but it is much more loosely connected to the verb than locative i'-: at times it seems to be a separate word, and I also have examples where it precedes something other than the verb. Locative i'-, on the other hand, patterns with the other locative prefixes and the instrumentals in that the person markers always precede these prefixes in Crow.<BR>
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Randy<BR>
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