New topic -- stative pronouns with reflexives?

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jan 15 08:58:52 UTC 2004


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:

> Crow reflexives look like this:
>
> 1s  b-ihchi-waa-lichi' 'I hit myself' etc.
> 2   d-i'hchi-laa-lichi
> 3   ihchi-lichi'
...
> I have always assumed that b and d in the 1st and 2nd person forms were
> derived from stative bii and dii, with shortening of the long vowel before the
> initial i of the reflexive.

Could they be derived from active series pronominals like ba(a)- and da-?

Of course, given that the underlying verb is also inflected, I can see why
an oblique or stative form seems more natural.



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