animate wa-

[Koontz John E]

I'm embarassed to say that I had confused the wa-form for an indefintie
form, though, of course, it's the first person!  (In my defense, in
Dhegiha, the first person is *a*, but I know it's wa in Dakota.)  I
realized the mistake later and hadn't gotten around to correcting it.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote:

> John
> I believe this verb thikte can take an object like wichas^a wan thikte
> 'he murdered a man (not as in warfare)'
> Bruce
>
> > 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
> >
>
>