FW: double inflection

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Mon Aug 4 22:47:57 UTC 2003


On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> There are a couple of examples such as wawe'dhe 'he's seeing things' from
> iidhe 'see'.

I don't know the details with 'see', but verbs in idha- (cf. Dakotan iya-)
and i- have wawe- for 'them'.  This looks like wa-wa-i- or maybe
wa-a-wa-i-.  Most i-only verbs just have we- < wa-i-, but, for example,
ighagha 'to laugh at' leads to waweghagha=i 'they are laughers at them'.

JEK



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