Two object pronouns in a transitive verb
Bruce Ingham
bi1 at soas.ac.uk
Fri Mar 17 15:46:00 UTC 2000
I'm sure I've seen niwichak'upi 'they gave you (in marriage ) to them'
somewhere, probably Deloria's Dakota Texts
Bruce
vanvalin at acsu.buffalo.edu wrote:
> When I was working on my dissertation, I got ni-wicha-wa-k'u 'I give you
> to them' once. I imagine this reflects more my youthful overexuberance
> during elicitation than a real form in the language.
>
> Van
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