Conjugation Of A Sentence in Tutelo-Saponi
shokooh Ingham
shokoohbanou at YAHOO.CO.UK
Sun Jun 2 12:44:42 UTC 2013
Siouan articles are fantastic. I once wrote an article about articles (no pun intended), which some of you may not have seen as it came out in a british periodical
Ingham, B. (2003) ‘The function of the post-nominal element ki~k’un in Lakota’ inTransactions of the Philological Society vol 101 iii p.371-410. ISSN 0079 1636.
It doesn't add much to what we already know, but I suggested that the 'articles' had something of the nature of a topicalizer.
Anyway have a great time at the Siouanists and I hope to see you all again one day. Actually I will be in the Mila Hanska Makhoche my self while the conference is on, but over in Connecticut. Best wishes to all.
Bruce
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From: "Rankin, Robert L." <rankin at KU.EDU>
To: SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu
Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2013, 0:17
Subject: Re: Conjugation Of A Sentence in Tutelo-Saponi
Aloha nā Siouanists,
> I had a guess on this sentence if it was UmoNhoN, which I checked with my NoNha. In Omaha, the article would occur, but it would be functioning as a subordinator:
> MoNhiNskithe bthoN tHe xtaathe.
> Grass.sweet it.smells the I.like
ʻI like the smell of sweetgrassʻ (Or awkwardly but more literally, ʻthat sweet grass smells, I like it.ʻ)
> Probably Tutelo articles donʻt function anywhere near like Omahaʻs beautiful, powerful articles, but I am wondering if there might not be a subordinator needed there, too. The sentence feels awkward to me without.
Interesting, Ardis. I bet Tutelo does work the same way. That seems to be a standard Siouan pattern. But I'll defer to my syntactician colleagues.
Does Omaha use MoNhiNskithe for real sweetgrass? Sounds like a loan-translation from English. The Dakotan term has a cognate in Dhegiha, but it's the word for 'onion'. I was wondering if NE Nebraska has sweetgrass and, if so, what the Omahas and Poncas call
it.
Best,
Bob
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