CHAT: Pima determiners

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Marcus Smith wrote:

> I understand the point of view. I'm studying Pima right now, and its
> determiner system is leaving me confused. The article 'heg' never modifies
> a noun before the auxiliary, but modifies almost all of them after the
> verb. But so far it seems to be completely optional. It gets used with
> nouns and names. But sometimes there is a demonstrative instead of 'heg',
> and I'm not sure if there is a reason or if my consultant just feels like
> translating things that way. Very perplexing. Very fun.
I won't say a thing; not a thing. Even though I *really* want to ...

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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