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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’m still a bit puzzled by Lakhota
<i>chi</i> though. If first person *wa is actually missing from the portmanteau, why isn’t the outcome the same as we get for second person *<i>yi</i> alone? And why doesn’t second person undergoer *<i>yi</i> itself go to aspirated /chi/ rather than (I think)
<i>ni</i> ?<br>
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<font size="4">*<i>y</i><font size="4">- of the 2nd person was replaced with <i>r</i> in MVS.
<font size="4">There are just relics of the 2nd sg. in <i>y-</i>. </font></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">For Dhegiha
<i>wi</i>, we apparently get a second *<i>wa</i> after the <i>wi</i> and before the verb when the inflected root starts with a simple stop or *<i>r</i> (non-standard or consonant-type inflection). That fact had thrown me, since it led me to suppose that the
*<i>wa</i> came after the *<i>yi</i> rather than before it. But I suppose this is just a secondary reanalysis in Dhegiha making for double inflection?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><font face="Arial" size="4">If you like conundra the order of agent and patient in the portmanteaux should keep you busy. It's true in Kaw also that the
I/you prefix, <i>wi-</i> often gets a second 1st sg. prefix on the following verb. That's just what Dick Carter call<font size="4">ed</font> "layering". When one layer becomes unanalyzable to speakers, they just add another<font size="4">.</font></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> Is it only Dhegiha that does this after the portmanteau?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><font size="4">I don't know. Dakotanists??</font></span></font></p>
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