Fetch (Vertitive)

[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 BARudes at aol.com wrote:
> The problem with an assumption that duk# lost du- through absorption into
> pronominals is the fact that duk# always precedes pronominals.

The location of prepronominal morphemes tends to become postpronominal
over time in Siouan, so, in itself, prepronominal location is not a
problem.  Of course, the potential evanescence of proclitic locative
particles might be an issue.  Some of the marginalia of the Siouan verb
are restricted to particular languages or subgroups and are probably
relatively recent innovations.  On the other hand, a small set of widely
distributed forms provide a lot of the character of Siouan as a whole.
And a number of proclitic elements seem to have been fairly stable in
Siouan or Mississippi Valley Siouan over a relatively shorter time, even
when lexically restricted.  Quite a number of bipartite verbs with
individual or seldom repeated preverbs are attested, *maN=..riN 'to walk'
being a classical example.  (And now I wonder about *maN= here and the
ma:= 'there' proclitic in Catawba.)

JEK