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(132) Various uses of the conjunct in sentence grammars
a) Conjuncts as temporal subordinate clauses (Benjamin 2006, unpublished story)
Mewinzha omaa gii-maajii-anokiiyaan gegaa nisimidana daso-biboonagad
long ago here PAST-start-work.1/CONJ almost thirty be so many years
iw wapii, onzaam niibowagiziwag ingiw bakaan gegoo ezhichigejig.
that time too much they are a lot those different thing those who did things
‘A long time ago when I started working here almost thirty years ago, there
would be too many people who did things differently.’
b) Conjuncts as complements of predicative words (text communication)
Mii ji-bi-de-dagoshinaan oodi Waashtanong nidizhaa.
DP FUT-come-enough-arrive.1/CONJ there Washington D.C. I am going there
‘I will be back by then as I’m going to Washington D.C.’
c) Conjuncts as embedded clauses (Mille Lacs Session)
Gego anaamimishiken maanaadiziyan.
don’t don’t blame me ugly.2/CONJ
‘Don’t blame me that you are ugly.’
In (132a), there is no temporal word meaning when. It is the use of the conjunct here
which gives it this temporal meaning. In (132b), the conjunct verb dagoshinaan appears
with the predicative element mii, which normally dictates the use of conjunct verbs. In
(132c), the conjunct maanaadiziyan functions as an embedded clause.
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