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without izhi remain as plain conjuncts. The verbs involved with the event line occur in
bold type.
(140) izhi invokes initial change (Kegg 1991:104-105)
a) Mii imaa ani-biminizha’oyangid.
DP there start-chase.3>1P/CONJ
b) Wayiiba azhigwa imaa biindigeyaang.
soon now there we come inside/CONJ
c) Aaniish naa zegiziyaan ezhi-mawiyaan imaa biminizha’od.
well ----------- I am scared/CONJ IC.then I cry/CONJ there that s/he is chasing me/CONJ
c) “Gidaano-inin ji-wewiibishkaayan,” indig.
I tried to tell you to hurry up she tells me
e) Mii go imaa ba-izhi-biindiged a’aw gichi-animosh, gaa-izhi-biindiged
that EMPH there IC.come-RR-enter.3/CONJ that big dog IC.PAST-RR-enter.3/CONJ
a’aw animosh.
that dog
a) ‘It started following us.
b) In a little while we went inside.
c) Well, I was scared and crying at being followed there.
d) “I told you to hurry,” she said to me.
e) That big dog came right in, that dog came right in.’
The mii-clauses, mii imaa ani-biminizha’oyangid in (140a) and mii go imaa ba-izhi-
biindiged in (140e) are particularly revealing, since they show similar syntactic
environments from which to make a comparison. For example, in the mii-clause without
izhi in (140a), the preverbal element ani- ‘starts’ is left intact, while the preverbal element
bi- ‘come’ housed within the mii-clause in (140b) undergoes initial change to ba-. In
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