<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Just as a clarification, the Catawba first person plural forms Bob is referring to are nu ~ du:- (not noN- ~ do-). More specifically, nu is an object proclitic on verbs (e.g. nu ká:nire: 'he/she sees us' [ká:nire: 'he/she sees it'); du:- is a pronominal stem used to form first person plural independent pronouns (e.g. dú:ta? 'we (subject)', dú:ka? 'us (object)', du: 'we (emphatic)'. The inflectional markers for first person plural subjects on verbs and possession on nouns are unrelated to nu: ~du:-: ha- with verbs that take prefixes and with inalienably possessed nouns and -?a:- with verbs that take suffixes and with alienably possessed nouns. Internal reconstruction within Catawba would suggest that nu and du:- come from earlier nu and nu:-.<BR>
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