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</FONT></SPAN>I haven't notice that gender particles as evidentials affect
the use of verbs at all although they do tend to occur with certain meanings
more than others. Verbs of presence or arrival often will
receive an assertion particle if such information is a
change of scene or new information, and therefore have a kind of
deictic effect, locating the speaker with the respect to
the utterance, or so I argues in my dissertation on Lakhota gender. This
seems to be the case with the OP texts I've looked at as
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</FONT></SPAN>Some languages like Newari and a bunch in South America
(whose names aren't at the tip of my fingers) have an intricate system
matching the use of specific evidentials, verb meanings, and person, but
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class=015100321-20012005>RLR -- I think Aleksandra Aikhenvald probably has a
number of good papers on evidentials, especially in South America. She
worked in the Vaupes region of Amazonia in Brazil and has written on
evidentials. She doesn't do any Siouan
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class=015100321-20012005>> </SPAN>Lakhota seems to have a more fully
developed system of gendered illocutionary/affective force particles than
the other Mississippi Valley languages, <SPAN
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class=015100321-20012005>RLR -- This certainly seems to be true, but I've
always wondered if part of it wasn't that most of us arrived on the scene too
late to find examples of their full usage?
Bob</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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