Incorporation

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Robert L. Rankin wrote:
> mani 'walk' is one such. The conjugation is ma-wa-ni, ma-ya-ni (and, I
> think, u~-mani in the inclusive person, but I'm not sure).  

That's the pattern in OP (aNmaN'dhiN), though in Dakotan uN is infixed. 
In OP both maN=...dhiN 'walk' and maN=...dhaN 'steal' extrapose the
inclusive, resulting in a pattern like the locative one (in Dakotan).
In a purely infixing pattern OP insets not just 1st and 2nd, but also
the inclusive, cf. mu=a'se, mu'=dhase, mu=aN'se 'I/you/we cut with a
shot'. 

'Walk' and 'steal' are the only two verbs of non-locative origin in OP
that behave like locative verbs, as far as I know.  

Mind you, locatives don't behave consistently like Dakotan locatives in
OP, so sometimes the wa patient inclusive follows a locative (u), and
sometimes the aN agent inclusive does (i).  Also, a and aN of various
first person and inclusive person pronominal origins move to before any wa
or we, etc., if the position they move from is not too deeply buried.  In
general, they move out of a post-locative slot, but not out of a
post-preverbal slot, e..g., not out of a causative. 

I mention these awkward complications because readers with a Dakotanist
background may assume that OP follows Dakota rule for rule, whereas it
does not.