DPs and Demonstratives

[Mirzayan Armik]

David, thanks for the clarification.

I should have stated in my email that the content had nothing to 
contribute directly to the Dhegiha discussion! I do realize that the 
article system is different from Lakhota and that the dem-det order is 
impossible in Lakhota. I only thought the information might illuminate a 
way of looking at the Dhegiha pitch-accent in the same types of phrases, 
though maybe others have already done so.

Regarding the Lakhota dem "he", I also wonder if it behaves differently. I 
have only analyzed one token in the same (conversational) data with the N 
det-dem order where the dem is "he", but unfortunately it's overlapped 
speech and I have a hard time hearing it well. I'll look for more in the 
other parts of the data to see if I can indentify any other (clearer) 
ones.

    Armik

>
> Thanks, Armik -- it's always good to have concrete data instead of
> impressions.  Given what you've said, my theory that the DEM is a
> resumptive pronoun is clearly called into question, at least for "le" and
> in this expression.  I wonder if "he" would behave differently, since
> that's the one that's most often used as a third person pronoun.
> 	I don't think this is relevant to the Dhegiha discussion, however,
> since there are too many differences: the whole article system is
> different, and the order dem-det is impossible in Lakota but normal there.
> 	David
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> 295 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> USA
> rood at colorado.edu
>