Jan,<br>Can you get examples of animates where the -ichi- expresses reciprocity between two animates without having a separate outside agent as with the 'he' in your examples ie a sentence like wankichiyankapi 'they saw each other' with an -ichi-<br>Bruce<br><br><b><i>Jan Ullrich <jfu@centrum.cz></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><title>Zpráva</title> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name="GENERATOR"> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;"> <div></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> (quoting Bruce Ingham)</font></span></font></font></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader"
dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span class="266112914-19122007"></span></font></font> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="2"><span class="266112914-19122007">> </span></font></font>My impression with the -ichi- versus -kichi- is that when reciprocal the ichi- occurs with inanimates and that the kichi- usually with animates. <span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">></font> </span>Is that the case with your examples Jan? <span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span
class="266112914-19122007"></span> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">No, I have recorded sentences where animates occur with ichi, as in</font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">NuphiN ichiyauNphapi cha ksuyeuNyaNpe lo. 'He hit us against each other and hurt us.'</font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">IchiwaNwichayaNke. 'He compared them."</font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"
lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Jan</font></span></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><span class="266112914-19122007"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div></blockquote></blockquote><br><p>
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