obviation in Siouan languages

Mon Jun 11 18:47:41 UTC 2007

(quoting Bruce Ingham)
  >my experience is that postpositional phrases don't take everything that other core noun phrases do, ie they less frequently show the Topic marker ki/k'uN and I don't think iNs^ or iNs^ eya occur with postpositions.  I can't envisage a phrase like mni iNs^ el. 

  If this doesn't work (I'm not sure), something like na iNs> mni el  sounds doable to me. But we better leave the asnwer to native speakers...

  Regina

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