Predicative (?)e (was RE: Nominal Ablaut, ...)

Rankin, Robert L rankin at ku.edu
Wed Sep 12 18:43:01 UTC 2001


> > 90:33.4 wi'=e=bdhiN 'I am he'
> > 90:262.1 dhi'=e=hniN=de 'since it is you'  (there's that =de)
> > 90:113.7 e'=e he 'it is he'
> > 90:197.10 aNgu' aNdhiN'=b=az^i 'we are not'

I think we have rather different analyses here. For me, wie bdhiN is NP VP.
I don't look upon dhiN as an enclitic.

Biloxi has re/ri in some peculiar places like your de here.

Bob



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