Lakota wa- 'variety object'

[Carolyn Q.]

These would lend themselves to the following glosses:

they laugh at folks and laugh at folks
they decide-for-others things and decide-for-others things
he cheats folks and cheats folks

or the equivalent expressions in English with "around".  Neither type of
gloss is completely adequate.

where one wa is the "things" or "folks" valence reducer;
 and
the other wa multiplies the instances of the action

Carolyn



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  Subject: Re: Lakota wa- 'variety object'





    I looked for additional examples of wawe'- and turned up:

    wawe'xaxa=i 'they are laughers at them' (they scorn various things about
    people?)
    < i'xa 'to laugh at'

    wawe'dhigdhaN=i 'rulers' (those who decide [various things?] for people)
    < i'dhigdhaN 'to decide for someone'

    wawe'k[k]it[t]at[t]a 'a deceiver' (he cheats people [in various ways?])
    < i'k[k]it[t]e 'to cheat'

    It seems particularly significant that two of the three examples involve
    reduplication. However, all of these examples involve at least an
    implicit 'them', also marked with wa- in Dhegiha.
    ======

    That's interesting because in Lakota, wa- seems to have inanimate
reference only. So OP wa- seems to have developed differently, semantically
speaking, than Lakota wa-. (Which of course leaves the chicken-and-egg
question open).

    Regina


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