Tense

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I don't know, Linda. Wouldn't want to distract you with the other dialects.
There are those of us in the peanut gallery getting awfully anxious for
your dissertation.

Heehee
Pat

Wouldn't

On 5 Apr 2003, Linda Cumberland wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> >
> > I'll generate a .pdf file and email it if that's OK.
> > The paper is about the Quapaw language, but the
> > statements/arguments work just about as well for
> > Dakotan too.
>
> I'd like a copy, too, please.
>
> Re: conditionals:
>
> > You'll
> > > > also get it with conditionals, modals 'may, might'
> > and
> > > > other utterances that make it clear that what it
> > really
> > > > marks is 'irrealis mode'.  It just marks something
> > that
> > > > hasn't actually happened.
>
>
> In Assiniboine the conditionals are followed by tukha, and as far as I
> can tell, it's obligatory for this meaning. (I assume this is Lak.
> tkha, but it's not reduced in Asb).  Examples:
>
> wana na=kta tukha           'you should go now'
>
> zhe nowaN=kta tukha         'he was supposed to sing (but he didn't)'
>
> mihiNkna hi=kta tukha       'my husband should have come (by now)'
>
> xtanihaN maghazhu=kta tukha 'it was supposed to rain yesterday'
>
> Then there's the contrasting set:
>
> nakhon?i?a=kta chiNka       'he wants to learn Nakoda'
>
> nakhon?i?a=kta wachiNka tukha  'he wants to learn Nakoda (but it's
> doubtful that he will)'
>
> Linda
>