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the speaker, once a topic or event has been brought up, remembers something significant
about that topic or event and interjects it into the discourse. It is important to note that
these so-called RESULTANT INTERJECTIONS always occur as a result or consequence of
some aforementioned topic or event. Utterances with the cluster sa go never occur as the
initial statement. The use of sa go in making resultant interjections can be seen in the
following example where the speaker makes an interjection that is not relevant to the
story at hand, but relevant to a topic just mentioned, i.e. playing on the shore.
(88) sa go (Kegg 1991:116-117)
a) Mii imaa jiibaakwewaad ingiw ikwewag, wii-sagaswe’iwewaad,
DP there they are cooking those women when they want to have a feast
izhiwidoowaad imaa niimi’idiiwigamigong.
they bring it there to the dance lodge
b) Babaa-dazhiitaayaan jiigibiig imaa neyaashing, giigoozensag
I am playing around there shore there at the point minnows
imbabaa-debibinaag.
I am going around catching them
c) Anooj sa go imaa asiniinsan imaa.
various DM DM there little rocks there
d) Baanimaa go imaa inaabiyaan agidaaki gaa-namadabid, mii a’aw
suddenly EMPH there I look there on top of the hill he who was sitting DP that
Gichi-jaagigaabaw gii-inaa.
Gichi-jaagigaabaw he was called
e) Oo, yay, gichi-zegiziyaan.
oh goodness I am really scared
a) ‘The women cooked there for the feast and took it to the dance lodge.
b) I was playing around on the shore at the point catching minnows.
c) There were [sa go] all sorts of stones there.
d) Suddenly I looked up and there was Gichi-jaagigaabaw as he was called sitting
on top of the hill.’
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