Re: CHAT: Pima determiners

Dirk Elzinga wrote:

>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 ...
Say anything you would like. We are have reached the stage where we are
allowed to consult any reference we like, so you wouldn't be spoiling
anything for me. In fact, I would love to hear something I didn't know
about. There is no pattern in the data available to me yet.

Marcus


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Marcus Smith
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