Lakota/Dakota questions

[David Kaufman]

Thanks, Jan!  This is very helpful.

Dave

David Kaufman
Linguistic Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Kansas
Director, Kaw Nation Language Program


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Jan Ullrich <jfu at lakhota.org> wrote:

> > Would you be able to provide a morpheme-by-morpheme gloss of the
> sentences?
>
> David, below is a version with more detailed glossing of the verbal
> morphemes.
>
>
>
> 1) This morning I went hunting.
>
> Híŋhaŋni wa-khúl o-má-wa-ni.
>
> morning / non.specific.patient-shoot.at.sth.sb (truncated form of wakhúte)/
> locative.(about)-stem-1SG.AG-stem(to.walk)
>
>
>
> 2) I cannot cook
>
>
>
> a) Lol’íȟaŋ-pi uŋ-má-spe šni. – I don’t know how to cook. (literally: I
> don’t know how to do cooking.)
>
> to.cook-3PL.AG / stem-1SG.PAT-to.know.how.to.do.smth / not
>
> (The 3rd plural affix –pi nominalizes the verb lol’íȟ’aŋ, so the meaning
> of the first words is ‘cooking’).
>
>
>
> b) Lol’-í-wa-ȟ’aŋ o-wá-kihi šni. – I can’t cook (I am unable at the
> moment or under given circumstances).
>
> Food-loc-1SG.AG-act / stem-1SG.AG-stem(can/able) / not
>
>
>
> c) Tókheni(š) lol’íwaȟ’aŋ šni. – There is no way I could cook (under given
> circumstance).
>
> In no way(adversative) / food-loc-1SG.AG-act / not
>
>
>
> (There are a number of verbs for “to cook“, although the one I used is
> most common today.)
>
>
>
> 3) I came chasing someone.
>
>
>
> Tuwá khuwá a-wá-hi.
>
> Someone / to.chase.sb.sth / loc-1SG.AG-to.come.here
>
>  The verb ahí (1SG.AG: awáhi) means ‘to bring sth/sb’, so the literal
> meaning is “I brought someone here chasing him/her.” To my knowledge Lakota
> always uses bringing/taking verbs rather than coming/going verbs in this
> construction.
>
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>
> Jan
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