Date of Award
12-1974
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Linguistics
First Advisor
John C. Crawford
Abstract
In her Dakota Texts Ella Deloria appears to be using cha and chanke interchangeably. The goal of this paper is to show that the difference lies in the realm of subordination. For this purpose other languages have been examined to detect how subordination is marked in them. Both German and English are shown to mark subordinate clauses overtly, but Lakhota markers are not so apparent. Subordination is formally defined in a Generative Semantic framework and pertinent works on Lakhota grammar are reviewed. The solution implied by Boas and Deloria that cha is a subordinator is accepted and proven to be true. But Boas and Deloria's solution turns out to include two homophones under one meaning and cha is shown to have the function of a causal subordinator and also acts as an emphatic particle. Chanke is shown to be a coordinating conjunction.
Recommended Citation
Corduan, Wolfgang, "Subordinating and coordinating particles in Lakhota" (1974). Theses and Dissertations. 3468.
https://commons.und.edu/theses/3468