Suddenly Verbs

[Robert L. Rankin]

> I've been thinking of the Omaha-Ponca 'suddenly' verbs as
> inceptive/punctuals, but the more I ponder Randy's 'unexpected' idea,
> the more it seems to me that I might be missing a possibility.
> 'Unexpected' does correlate fairly well with 'begin, become' in terms of
> 'novelty'.  I'll look at the examples and see if I can tell which
> approach works better.

Not to muddy the waters, but Muskogean languages have an infix "grade" for
what has often been described as "sudden action," "punctual,"
"momentaneous" etc.  It turns out it can combine with a continuative
aspectual infix and when it does, it generally forms an iterative.  

SO, can the Omaha-Ponca (OP) affixes be used with either reduplication or
the positional (i.e., continuative) auxiliaries, and if so, does the
resultant form clarify for us what, exactly, John's affixes/categories
"really" are, i.e., is this a possible "test"?

Bob