<div dir="ltr">Howdy all, especially Dhegihanists!<br><br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4 (Linux)">Has anyone ever compiled a list of all the various uses of the e+ga<span style="font-style: normal;">ⁿ</span> morphemes together in Ponca or Omaha (or any other Dhegiha language)? As we all know, this combination occurs in conjunctions, adverbs, referential pronominal-thingies and verbs of various predicative and quotative sorts, and there is debate as to whether ga<span style="font-style: normal;">ⁿ</span> is a single morpheme given nifty collocations like
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--></style><span style="font-style: normal;">ðégimaⁿ</span> "I do thus". Anyone got a list as a starting point for further investigation?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>***********************************************************<br>
Bryan James Gordon, MA<br>Joint PhD Program in Linguistics and Anthropology<br>University of Arizona<br>***********************************************************<br>
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