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accenting her censure with sha and emphatic marker igo (appearing here as contracted
form go).
(94) sha go
a) Speaker A: (Hangs up from asking someone to bring peanut butter.)
b) Speaker B: Mii na sha go booch nandwewendaman?
DP INTER MP EMPH anyways that you are asking for it
‘Are you [sha go] asking for it anyways?!’
In (94), Speaker B queries Speaker A as to why he would be asking for peanut butter
when he just stated that he was allergic to it. Speaker B, recognizing the illogicality or
unreasonableness of Speaker B’s actions, uses the second position mystery particle
cluster sha go to confront him about this, albeit in a teasing manner. In a way, Speaker B
is getting after Speaker A, while also showing Speaker A his illogical actions.
This censuring feature can be seen also in the following examples as well, where an
elder reveals and reproaches an assumption by interlocutors that he is really old. The
response to this assumption is accented by the second position mystery particle cluster
sha go naa.
(95) sha
Gaawiin sha go naa inde-apiitizisiin.
not DM DM DM I am not old enough
‘I’m not [sha go naa] that old!’ (lit. I am not old enough.)
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