do/done auxiliary
Catherine Rudin/HU/AC/WSC
CaRudin1 at wsc.edu
Thu Jun 20 15:14:07 UTC 2002
Bob wrote:
...?uN crops up on most Siouan
languages as a part of various enclitics signaling
'past' or 'perfective', including but not limited to,
Dhegiha -noN/-naN, glossed 'past' by Dorsey,...
Is this the -noN (1st person -noNmoN) that I always gloss "usually" or
"habitual"? How would past/perfective give this very IMperfective meaning?
Or are there (sigh) TWO -noN suffixes? Catherine
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