<div>The animacy issue can be resolved if we assume, as I have suggsted a few messages ago, that kichi- is the "real" reciprocal and ichi- is simply a prefix that indicates, loosely speaking, contact etc. I wasn't even sure that ichi- is a person marker (in the sense that it occupies the slots for person marking in the verb) when I looked at my own data, and now that I've seen Jan's last example, I'm even less sure. kichi-, on the oher hand, is a person marker, and it also inflects for person (yechi- second person, uNkichi- first person). ichi- does not inflect for person, as far as I know. As a genuine reciprocal marker, kichi- can be expected primarily with animates because animates are the entities in the universe that usually 'do' things to each other, while inanimates are normalyy inert. So this might explain strong statistical correlations of animates with kichi- in texts and other corpora.</div> <div>Regina<BR><BR><B><I>shokooh Ingham
<shokoohbanou@yahoo.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">My impression with the -ichi- versus -kichi- is that when reciprocal the ichi- occurs with inanimates and that the kichi- usually with animates. Is that the case with your examples Jan? This looks a little bit as though we have a verb class division rather as in Cree and perhaps other Algonquian languages, where verb types, but not necessarily stems, are specialized for animate or inanimate subject (maybe agent). This would mean that basically ichi- is inanimate reciprocal as in ichihkoyaka 'be linked to each other' ichipawega 'cross over each other', ichicawinga 'go back on the previous one (of paths)' , but if you have an animate agent, the reciprocity is born by the objects (patients?) as in ichiwanyanka 'compare, see one in relation to another', ichipasisa 'pin one to the other' etc.
Similarly icihipasisa could mean 'be pinned to each other' if the subject was inanimate.<BR>Bruce<BR><BR>Bruce<BR><BR><B><I>Jan Ullrich <jfu@centrum.cz></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=cs dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=312250722-17122007>(quoating Regina)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>>> </FONT>iyeciNkyaNke ki ichi-yaphapi<SPAN> </SPAN>'the cars bumped into each other, in an accident'<SPAN class=562121216-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN class=562121216-17122007>>> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Times
New Roman" size=3>a-kichi-phapi<SPAN> </SPAN>'they hit each other'<SPAN class=562121216-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=562121216-17122007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN class=562121216-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>>I would argue that these don't represent a minimal pair. ichi-yaphapi comes from ichi + >iyapha whicle akichiphapi originates in aphA and kichi-.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>That's what I was trying to say, if you agree that kichi- is the reciprocal marker here.<SPAN class=312250722-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312250722-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN
class=312250722-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am not sure I follow, Can you explain?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312250722-17122007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=312250722-17122007>Jan</SPAN><SPAN class=312250722-17122007></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <div> <HR SIZE=1> Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/isp/control/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51947/*http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/">Yahoo! for Good</A> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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