[Lexicog] sit vs. sit

[Wayne Leman]

John Koontz responded:

> Can you use artificial constructions such as sit-II and sit-AI or posit or
> loc?

Yes, those would work just fine, John.

>  Unfortunately set won't work, because it's sit-TI/TA ...

right

> English
> doesn't do much with animate vs. inanimate in this area.
>
> > I suspect that the Sioun positionals may not be as morphologically
> > transparent as are the Algonquian finals for 'sit' (or 'be at'), but, of
> > course, there would be some functional similarities.
>
> No, they're pretty transparent, though not the same stems as the
> independent lexical verbs 'sit', 'stand', 'lie' and 'walk'.  In this area
> the Siouan languages are very agglutinative.

OK,
Wayne
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Wayne Leman
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