another Siouan question
REGINA PUSTET
pustetrm at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 17 21:06:24 UTC 2007
(quoting Jan)
>The only difference is that the speakers I consult still use palatalization after ichi, so I would >get ichi-cas^ka rather than ichi-kas^ka etc.
With some ichi-forms I have in my files, there is free variation between subsequnt palatalization and non-palatalization. But yes, we have discussed that before, it's something that varies from verb to verb, from dialect to dialect, and possibly from speaker to speaker.
>> ichi-khokapi 'they are linked to each other'
> I would spell this ichi-khoyakapi.
So would I. At least khoyaka is the only version of this verb I know. But sometimes the short forms have become the new standard, and the're worth quoting as such, Just think of the realizations of plural -pi. In some phonetic environments, the full form -pi is not acceptable to native speakers any more.
>> iyeciNkyaNke ki ichi-yaphapi 'the cars bumped into each other, in an accident'
>> a-kichi-phapi 'they hit each other'
>I would argue that these don't represent a minimal pair. ichi-yaphapi comes from ichi + >iyapha whicle akichiphapi originates in aphA and kichi-.
That's what I was trying to say, if you agree that kichi- is the reciprocal marker here.
Regina
Jan Ullrich <jfu at centrum.cz> wrote:
Hi Regina,
that is a nice and representative list and is also well in line with my findings. The only difference is that the speakers I consult still use palatalization after ichi, so I would get ichi-cas^ka rather than ichi-kas^ka etc. but I think the two of us have discussed that before.
> ichi-khokapi 'they are linked to each other'
I would spell this ichi-khoyakapi.
Khoyaka and its derivatives have a very hight number of fast speech variants and idiolectal forms which might be difficult to decipher at times.
> iyeciNkyaNke ki ichi-yaphapi 'the cars bumped into each other, in an accident'
> a-kichi-phapi 'they hit each other'
I would argue that these don't represent a minimal pair. ichi-yaphapi comes from ichi + iyapha whicle akichiphapi originates in aphA and kichi-.
I also agree that ichi is much less productive today and in fact some speakers tend to replace it with i- in some cases, so for 'to compare things' some say ichiwanyanka while others say iwanyanka.
Jan
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