Conjugation Of A Sentence in Tutelo-Saponi

[De Reuse, Willem]

Small observation about 'separate as in Lakota kin'.  Lakota kin is an enclitic, i.e. phonologically part of the preceding word, but we write this enclitic separately by convention, just like other enclitics such as plural pi are written together with preceding word by convention.  (I know there is probably no good cross-linguistic definition of cliticization, but in Lakota the difference between clitic things an nonclitic things is fairly clear; I am not even saying that once a clitic, always a clitic; there are cases where plural pi is stressed, and therefore not a clitic, same thing might be true of some kin...)

Willem
________________________________
From: Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu] on behalf of David Kaufman [dvkanth2010 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:50 AM
To: SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu
Subject: Re: Conjugation Of A Sentence in Tutelo-Saponi

(In Biloxi and some other Siouan languages like Lakota and Dhegiha the definite article is after the noun, either suffixed as in Biloxi -yaN or separate as in Lakota kin.)


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/siouan/attachments/20130525/b3cbe690/attachment.htm>