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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Koontz John E <John.Koontz@colorado.edu> wrote: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> We might find some "newer" pattern uses in<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> older materials, too, or at least this is the case in Omaha-Ponca for<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> other innovations: modern day uses tend to occur sporadically in earlier<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> materials, too. An example would be the modern practice of inflecting<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> daNbe 'to see' doubly as attaN'be 'I ...', dhas^taN'be 'you ...'. Mostly<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> Dorsey reports ttaN'be, s^taNbe, but a few speakers in his day were using<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">> the "modern" forms. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Double inflection of this type is extremely marginal in Lakota -- right now only one verb comes to my mind that behaves like the OP forms, i.e. iNyaNkA 'to run'. In the Boas/Deloria materials, and also in Buechel 1971, this verb is quoted as having wa-'iNmnaNkA for first person singular, which also is the standard Rosebud form today. My Rosebud speaker (about 80 years old) mentioned that Pine Ridge uses the (simplified, regularized) form wa-'iNyaNkA instead. My Pine Ridge speaker (about the same age) has confirmed this form, adding that in the 1930s, Pine Ridge had wa-'iNblaNkA for 'I run'. One way of dealing with this is by hypothesizing that Lakota has moved beyond an earlier (pan-Siouan??) stage of using double inflection with many verbs to a point where erstwhile doubly inflecting paradigms have been completely regularized by eliminating the irreg!
ular (or
let's say, less regular) part of the inflection, i.e. -mn-/-bl- in the case of wa-'iNmnaNkA/wa-'iNblaNkA, retaining only the canonical wa- '1SG.AG' marker. So that the Pine Ridge state of affairs represents the most innovative stage in the overall development. From my work on Osage on the basis of the LeFlesche materials I remember that this language has/had a lot of doubly inflecting verbs. I can't imagine that individual Siouan languages have "invented" double inflection independently from each other. OP double inflection patterns would then occupy the centerpiece of the cycle, while structures like OP ttaNb'e 'I see' would be the historical point of departure.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><FONT face="Courier New">Regina<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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