animate wa-

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jan 1 04:50:52 UTC 2004


On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Koontz John E wrote:
> Here I see that Ingham lists for the agentive form thi'wic^hakte
> 'murderer' and for the abstract noun thi'wic^haktepi 'murder'.
> Interestingly, for the active verb he gives thi'kte/thi'wakte (not
> thi'kte/thi'wic^hakte) ... Apologies for putting Bruce
> in the spot, ...

Might all this mean that Dakotan verbs need potentially to be categorized
for their "indefinite object" form or forms?

JEK



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