<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>Blair,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the info!!!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>D.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; COLOR: black; FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>From:</B> BARudes@aol.com</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:03 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> siouan@lists.colorado.edu</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Information</DIV> <DIV> </DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Arial lang=0 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Dave,<BR><BR>Although not a Siouan language, in the distantly related Catawban language, Catawba, any part of speech may be turned into a verb form by adding a modal suffix. Typically, it is the independent (or indicative) modal suffix -re: that is used, but there are also examples of verbalization involving other modal suffixes, in particular the interrogative modal -ne. Thus, one finds kiN 'the', k'iNre: 'it is the one', k'iNne 'is it the one?'; h'i:ya: 'that (yonder), hi:y'a:re: ' it is out of sight'; n'aNpari 'two', n'aNparire: 'there are two (of them)'; ar'i: 'true', ar'i:re: 'it is true'; de: 'I (emphatic)', d'e:re: 'it is I'; w'i:ba: 'barred owl', wi:b'a:re: 'it is (the/a) barred owl'.<BR><BR>Blair <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>