animate wa-

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

easily done.  Lakota having at least three wa- prefixes that I know of
Bruce
Date sent:      	Thu, 8 Jan 2004 23:00:15 -0700 (MST)
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From:           	Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To:             	siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject:        	Re: animate wa-

> 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
> > >
> >
> >
>