andative

[David Kaufman]

Hi David,

>>From an etymological standpoint, I think your term is appropriate since this
is from the Latin verb 'andare' meaning 'to walk' or 'go' showing that this
morpheme is used in this 'going' or 'walking' sense.  I don't think I've
heard the term elsewhere, but then I'm just getting into Native American
linguistics and most of my language studies have been related to European
languages, so...  Hope this might help.

Dave Kaufman
MA, Linguistics
dvklinguist at hotmail.com


>From: "David Costa" <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: andative
>Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:28:33 -0700
>
>Hello all...
>
>This doesn't have anything directly to do with Siouan, but I figured this
>was a good venue to ask this question.
>
>I just got the page proofs back of an article on Shawnee I'm publishing,
>where I used the term 'andative'. The editor of the journal is requesting
>that I either reconsider the term or add a footnote explaining it. (I guess
>he'd never seen the term before?) I'm using the term 'andative' to describe
>a preverb that Carl Voegelin consistently translated in his Shawnee texts
>as
>'go and' or 'go do X' as in the following example:
>
>Hoowe "keh-pah-natonehaape wa-miiciyakwe".
>then | we (incl.) will go look for it | what we (incl.) will eat
>Then (she said) "let's go look for something to eat".
>
>(the andative preverb here is the /pah-/.)
>
>Now, this morpheme has no cognates I'm aware of elsewhere in Algonquian, so
>there's no ready-made term I can borrow for it. Moreover, I'm not aware of
>anything any linguist has ever called an andative in any other Algonquian
>language. I chose to call it 'andative' since I have a memory, at least 12
>years old, of being told about something in, I think, Wintuan that was
>translated the same way.
>
>Now the question: does anyone out there have any opinions of their own
>about
>what an 'andative' is, or, alternately, is anyone aware of another name for
>a morpheme like this? If 'andative' is the right name for this, it would be
>very helpful if I could have a straightforward bibliographical reference
>discussing an andative used the same way as this in another language (it
>doesn't have to be Algonquian).
>
>thanks much,
>
>Dave Costa
>
>
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