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verb. If carrying eventline information, the verb appears with conjunct order inflection. 68
This same sort of process can be also seen with another mii-complex miish i'iw, which
also has a similar narrative advancing function similar to miish (see also Fairbanks,
forthcoming). This can be easily seen with the mii-complex miish i'iw as well. When the
verb connected to miish i'iw is involved with the eventline, it occurs with conjunct
inflection. When the verb occurs within background commentary, it occurs with
independent order inflection. This is shown in the following excerpts from two stories.
In the first excerpt in (143), the narrator lists the events which occurred during a trip to
set a net for tullibees. In (144), the story is about the time the narrator met a “Mooniyaa-
Lady”, but before recounting her encounter, the narrator provides a rather lengthy
background about what a Mooniyaa-Lady is (only partially given here).
(143) miish i'iw within eventline structures (Kegg 1991:80-81)
a) Gaawiin igo gichi-gisinaasinoon, mii ezhi-gawishimoyaang imaa jiigibiig,
not EMPH not very cold then RR-lay down-1P/CONJ there shore
ezhi-gawishimoyaang imaa jiigibiig ganawenimaad iniw odasabiin,
RR-lay down-1P/CONJ there shore as she watches him/her that her net
jiichiigawiganebinag imaa zhingishinaang, apane go ezhi-anoozhid
scratch.1>3/CONJ there as we lie there always EMPH has me do
ji-jiichiigawiganebinag.
to scratch her back
b) Miish i’iw, miish i'iw maadaajimod.
and then….. and then….. start telling stories.3/CONJ
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Lone mii occurs in (139a,c) and is connected to conjunct order verbs as well. These, however, are
sentence level functions of the deictic particle mii (see Fairbanks, forthcoming, for a detailed discussion on
the functions of mii).
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