inclusive/exclusive
Marino
mary.marino at usask.ca
Thu Dec 29 18:24:30 UTC 2005
Hello Bob
I'd like a copy, too. Thanks.
Mary
At 10:10 AM 12/28/2005, you wrote:
>I'm incorporating my new data from Tutelo in the paper and will send my
>draft as soon as I finish the minor revision. Bob
>
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>From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of David Kaufman
>Sent: Mon 12/12/2005 12:47 PM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: RE: inclusive/exclusive
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> > I have a paper on that I can send folks. >
>
>Bob, I for one would like a copy. Thanks!
>
>Dave
>
>"Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:
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> I have a paper on that I can send folks. Bob
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> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of David Kaufman
> Sent: Sun 12/11/2005 3:49 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: RE: inclusive/exclusive
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> > Yuchi, oN- 'inclusive' and noN- 'exclusive'. >
>
> Just curious. I may be behind the times here, but has more
> research confirmed that Yuchi is definitively a Siouan language?
>
> Dave
>
> "Rankin, Robert L" wrote:
>
> Although I think Siouan languages once had a real
> inclusive/exclusive distinction (uN- 'inclusive'; nuN- 'exclusive'), t he
> Mississippi Valley languages, nowadays at least, seem to have
> dual/plural, with dual including the person addressed, i.e., you&me. So
> uN(k)-VERB is 'inclusive' and uN(k)-VERB-api is 'we (more than just you
> and I)'. So if I understand it correctly there is indeed a
> 'dual-inclusive' in MVS but there is no corresponding 'exclusive', just a
> generalized 'plural'. And the plural, as far as I know, does not
> necessarily exclude the p erson addressed.
>
> The original inclusive/exclusive distinction may be preserved in
> other subgroups of Siouan. I think Randy has found some evidence for it
> in Crow and there is evidence in Tutelo in a "hapax legomenon" form.
> Mandan retains ruN- as its general 'we' prefix. Catawba retains nuN- as
> an object, 'us', and the original inclusive/exclusive distinction is
> intact in Yuchi, oN- 'inclusive' and noN- 'exclusive'.
>
> I really have no idea what Dakotan speakers do with the
> disjunctive pronoun uNkiye as far as this distinction goes. Are t here
> distinct forms uNkiye/uNkiyepi?? Or are the separable pronouns simply
> outside the system?
>
> Bob
>
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> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of shokooh Ingham
> Sent: Sat 12/10/2005 3:40 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: inclusive/exclusive
>
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> I have just discovered, after studying Lakota for
> about twelve years that I have been using the terms
> e xclusive and inclusive wrongly. I always thought
> that 'exclusive we' uNkiye meant that the 3rd person
> was excluded and 'inclusive we' uNkiyepi meant that
> the 3rd person could be included. If it is the other
> way around, does it make sense? If uNkiyepi is
> exclusive, what is it excluding? It does not exclude
> 2nd person, because uNkiyepi could mean 'I, you and a
> third party'. Possibly there is some other rational
> for this use of the terminology. Does anyone know
> what it is? It seems to make more sense in Cree where
> nimiic inaan (exclusive we eat) means 'I and others
> excluding you', whereas kimiicinaw (inclusive we eat)
> means 'I and possibly others including you'. I also
> note that the term dual can be used for the uNkiye in
> Lakota meaning 'you and I'. Does anyone know whether
> it can mean 'more than one of you plus I', in which
> case it would not really be a dual.
> We live and learn
> Bruce
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