Strange use of Quapaw article/aux.
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Jun 20 19:03:21 UTC 2000
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Catherine Rudin wrote:
> By the way, I'm not always good at hearing aspiration, but I'm pretty sure I've
> always heard the Omaha "future" tta=i=the with an aspirated th in the last part.
> And aren't there examples of tta=i=khe etc. too? It sure looks like
> potential+evidential instead of double potential to me.
Well, undeniably what you hear would tend to have pretty heavy weight.
I've just never heard it.
I do find =tta=khe:
>>From my letter on "More Evidentials"
====
In Future of Surity
The future of surity 'shall surely' consists of tta FUTURE + the
EVIDENTIAL usually. Here is an example or two with tta + khe.
I looked for tta + dhaN or tta + ge without any luck.
e=da'=daN ua'z^i= tta=khe'= s^ti waN'gidhe oN?i'=i:
what I plant will surely too all he has given to me:
jod 1890:518.3
MaNdhiN'c^hakki iNs^?a'ge t?e'=tta=khe.
Manthin tcaki old man will surely die as he reclines
jod 1890:765.8
...
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I think the first of these is actually a relative clause ending in a
future, with a =khe type subject, now that I look at it. But I still like
the others.
JEK
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