<div>Also, according to info sent to me by John Boyle, Hidatsa uses -ri for the same (focus) purpose. Apparently Hidatsa -ri, Mandan -(r)e, and Biloxi -di all derive from PS -ri as a focus marker. It's use in Biloxi as a focus marker is apparently in free variation with 0 marking, since first mention occurs both with and without it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Dave<BR><BR><B><I>"Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">That's right. It's Biloxi -di, or -ni after a nasal V.<BR><BR>Sara Trechter has a somewhat similar function for -(r)e in Mandan, even though earlier workers portrayed it as "epenthetic". Mandan use isn't apparently restricted to first mention.<BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>From: owner-siouan@lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Rory M Larson<BR>Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 7:04 PM<BR>To:
siouan@lists.colorado.edu<BR>Subject: Biloxi nominal markers<BR><BR><BR><BR>> Dave Kaufman has discovered that in Biloxi -re/-ri is used to mark nominals at first mention in a discourse.<BR><BR>Is this the same as the -di I'm seeing on a lot of nouns and verbs in the Biloxi texts of the 1909/1912 Dorsey/Swanton Biloxi/Ofo collection?<BR><BR>Rory<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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