<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Calisto MT" LANG="0">Crow reflexives look like this:<BR>
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1s b-ihchi-waa-lichi' 'I hit myself' etc.<BR>
2 d-i'hchi-laa-lichi<BR>
3 ihchi-lichi'<BR>
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1p b-ihchi-waa-lit-u'u<BR>
2 d-i'hchi-laa-lit-uu<BR>
3 ihchi-lit-u'u<BR>
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I have always assumed that b and d in the 1st and 2nd person forms were derived from stative bii and dii, with shortening of the long vowel before the initial i of the reflexive. The fact that balee doesn't appear in the 1pl form is not necessarily conclusive, since balee also does not occur with the emphatic/contrastive pronouns and with pronominal objects of postpositions, both of which are based on the stative forms.<BR>
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1s biile'en 'I myself' etc.<BR>
2 diile'en<BR>
3 iile'en<BR>
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1p bi'iluun<BR>
2 di'iluun<BR>
3 i'iluun<BR>
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1s biss 'to me' etc.<BR>
2 diss<BR>
3 kuss<BR>
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1p bi'iluss<BR>
2 di'iluss<BR>
3 kuss<BR>
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I have always thought that what was strange about the Lakota reflexives was that there was only one pronoun rather than two.<BR>
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Randy</FONT></HTML>