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Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 31 21:13:45 UTC 2003


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Rory M Larson wrote:
> In either case, that party would probably be expecting the 2s of
> /moNdhiN/ to be the form which is listed in that dictionary.  If so,
> that would mean that MO-NI is intended to mean "you walk", even though
> that may never have been the real Osage form.

This is an important issue for interpretation of the whole text.  At least
in OP maNdhiN embedded under gaNdha would be inflected (OP maN(s^)niN),
but the imperative (under OP ga IMP m. or a IMP f.) would be uninflected -
imperatives have no explicit second person marking (OP maNdhiN).



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