Instrumental/locative.

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> Crow provides evidence for two distinct prefixes: ii (long vowel)
> 'instrumental', and i' (short vowel, accented) 'locative'.  Instrumental ii
> is a postposition, ...

That is, the syntax of the instrumental construction is [NP]=ii V?  (Or
maybe ii isn't enclitic?)  That's very nice!  I think you've mentioned
this before, but somehow it didn't sink in that the ii was not part of the
verb.