Blackfoot Wh-words enquiry

[shokooh Ingham]

Dear Heie
Thanks.  Did you have the words for 'when' and 'why' ?
 We have got Uhlenbeck at SOAS, but unfortunately I'm
housebound at the moment
Bruce
--- Heike Bödeker <heike.boedeker at netcologne.de>
wrote:

> Dear Bruce,

> 
> > Could you tell me the Blackfoot equivalents?
> 
> Sure. Actually, they're more fully treated in the
> standard grammars 
> by Frantz (1991: 134-138), Taylor (1969: 164, 213ff)
> and Uhlenbeck 
> (1938: 104-108). They're involving two interrogative
> roots, t- (ts- 
> resulting from a following *i, which is perfectly
> regular) and s- 
> (pace Taylor), as well as a demonstrative called
> into this special 
> service, and manner preverbs. Obviously, there's
> considerable 
> dialectal and historical variation involved, but,
> alas, the full 
> picture is not attested.
> 
> > taku    'what, something"
> 
> tsá (non-human animate or inanimate) "what?" [tsá
> niit- "what manner? 
> how?", tsá aanist- "id."; tsá anistsii- "be what
> time? be when?"]
> 
> áahsa (inaminate) "what?"
> 
> > tokhel  'how, somehow'
> 
> s.a.
> 
> > tona    'how many, some'
> 
> s.a. [tsá niitsi- "be what number? be how many?"]
> 
> > tokha   'what happened, something happened'
> 
> s.a.
> 
> > tuktel  'where, somewhere'
> 
> tsimá "where?", or distal ann- with non-affirmative
> verbal inflection 
> (e.g. annáatsiksi kóko'siksi? "where are your
> kids?")
> 
> > tokhiya 'where to, somewhere'
> 
> s.a. (e.g. tsimá kitáakitapóóhpa? "where will you
> go?")
> 
> > tohan/l 'when, sometime'
> 
> s.a.
> 
> > tuwe/a  'who, someone'
> 
> tahkáa, takáá (obviative: tsikáa) "who?"
> 
> > tukte   'which'
> 
> tská "why? which?"
> 
> tsiyá "which?"
> 
> (i)máak- (Piikani (i)máo'k-) "why?"
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Heike
> 



		
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