augmentative/diminutive shifting
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Sep 8 15:18:49 UTC 1999
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, SHEA KATHLEEN DORETTE wrote:
> In working on Ponca, I found a couple of examples that might be
> interesting.
More examples, from Omaha-Ponca, trying not to duplicate Kathy or Bob.
>>From Dorsey:
=xti : =xc^i the enclitic 'very, truely'
iNthaN : iNc^haN 'now' : 'right now'
(I think this is the proper distinction.)
iNc^haNga 'mouse'
Ones I got in fieldwork (Omaha):
c^c^eska 'short'
haNegaNc^he 'dawn'
(haN=egaN=the night-like-the)
Dorsey often has MaNs^c^iNge(=iN) for 'the Rabbit', but the speakers I
dealt with would only accept MaNs^tiNge.
Mark Swetland once mentioned to me some c^ forms that had to do with being
disheveled, but I'm not positive of their form at the moment.
I use s^ and c^ above for the alveo-palatal series.
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