Information / nouns vs. verbs

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> Thipi fills the technical bill as a verb, but I wonder if you don't tend to
> get some additional derivation when it REALLY functions as the V in the
> sentence.  In other Siouan languages at least one might tend to get the
> local equivalent of o-thi-pi "they live IN it" or some other locative
> prefix.  And the expression that means 'they are alive' would call for an
> entirely different verb.

Actually, it's usually just something analogous with *othi or even
underived thi.  In Dhegiha in particular one of the marks of nominality is
lack of plural marking (which tends to occur with third singular as well
as plural).