Hopi correction, was RE: person indexing (was: Information)

[Coon, Brad]

Sorry for delay in answering, its Finals week here and students are
panicking as usual with papers that were due yesterday problems.

Hopi has a nominal SOV sentence order but it is possible to leave out
pronominal subjects and objects if either or both is understood by context
or previous utterance.  Third person subject omission is most common, but
the dictionary gives an example of 2s subject, 3s object, and 3s implied
ind.object pronominals all being omitted.
Citation,
Hopi Dictionary, Hopi Dictionary Project, 1998, p.868.

Brad Coon
Reference Librarian
The Libraries-Montana State University
bcoon at montana.edu       (406) 994-6026


-----Original Message-----
From: Koontz John E [mailto:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:13 AM
To: 'siouan at lists.colorado.edu'
Subject: Re: Hopi correction, was RE: person indexing (was: Information)


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Coon, Brad wrote:
> My quick, off the cuff, answer is a reminder to me to check my sources
> before answering. The grammatical sketch in the Hopi Dictionary
> discusses Hopi verb inflection at length. It does indeed inflect for
> subject and sometimes object number, but not for person. Some verbs do
> not have subjects, particularly those dealing with the weather. Sorry
> for the misinformation,

What's the usual practice with independent pronominals?