[Lexicog] part of speech for phrases

[Koontz John E]

Correction and clarification

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Koontz John E wrote:
> I have to confess that I have never elicited the possessive paradigm of
> we'base, so I don't know whether it is more natural to say we'ppase for
> 'my saw' or we'ppase wiwitta.

We'ppase is the first person of the verb we'base.  Change
we'ppase wiwitta to we'base wiwi'tta 'my saw', wiwitta 'my'.

> However, I do specifically recall that Lipkind's Winnebago grammar
> indicates that use of the verbal first person is correct with Winnebago
> hoc^i' 'house; to live there', i.e., waac^i' 'my house; I live there',
> not hoc^i'=haniN.  However, it is c^ii' 'live; house' and c^ii'=haniN
> 'my house'.

Waac^i' is the first person of hoc^i'.  Also, I believe that is haaniN' 'I
have', the first person of haniN' 'to have' - the normal possessive
construction with inanimate nouns in Winnebago is to append the properly
inflected form of 'to have'.  Lipkind doesn't indicate vowel length
consistently.

JEK



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