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Satō Tomomi 佐藤知己 (2007). 千歳方言の再帰接頭辞yay-とsi-について[On the reflexive prefixes yay- and si- in the Chitose dialect].

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ku=ko-si-ranpewtek-ka wa k=an
1SG.A=APPL-REFL-know.nothing-CAUS CONJ 1SG.S=exist
‘I pretended not to know about it.’
sunku anakne peka ta si-pusu wa mom pe ne
spruce TOP surface LOC ANTIC-float CONJ drift thing COP
‘Spruce floats on the water and drifts — that is its nature.’
ku=ko-si-ranpewtek-ka wa ki=an
1SG.A=APPL-REFL-know-CAUS CONJ do=4.S
‘I was pretending to know nothing about it.’
sunku anakne peka ta si-pusu wa mom pe ne
Ezo.pine TOP surface LOC ANTIC-float.up CONJ flow NMLZ COP
‘The Ezo pine floats up to the water surface and flows along by itself.’
ku=ko-si-ranpewtek-ka wa k=an
1SG.A=APPL-REFL-know.nothing-CAUS CONJ IPFV
‘I was pretending not to know about it.’

Sentences of the first edition citing this source

  1. The distribution of yay- and the co-reflexive si- in Chitose is examined in ; the morphosyntax of both reflexive prefixes is set out in . no page Accent in Compounds and under Affixation and Cliticization
  2. Earlier accounts split them by intentionality or by an agentive against a patientive self; Satō’s Chitose analysis, adopted by Nakagawa and the Handbook, separates direct self-involvement, marked by yay-, from indirect involvement or dependence on another participant, marked by si-, so that yay-rayke ‘commit suicide’ stands against si-rayke ‘be ruined by ill fortune’ ; ; ‹contested›. 31–39 Valency, Voice, and Noun Incorporation: Overview
  3. Satō (2007) analyses this construction within his account of si- as marking indirect self-involvement: a pretense is only effective through others' perception, which is precisely the situation the indirect reflexive encodes . 36 The Transitivizer -ka and Lexical Valency Pairs
  4. The functional boundary between yay- and si- has produced several accounts that remain in tension ; ; . no page The Reflexive yay-
  5. ; ; . no page The Reflexive yay-
  6. The canonical Chitose minimal pair is yay-pusu 'pop up by swimming (volitionally)' vs si-pusu 'float of itself (spontaneously)', both from . no page The Reflexive yay-
  7. The si- class also covers a productive 'pretend' construction: si-mokor-e 'feign sleep', si-kamuy-ne-re 'pretend to be a deity', si-ranpewtek-ka 'pretend to know nothing' ; . no page The Reflexive yay-
  8. Satō himself notes that the direct/indirect analysis has not reached consensus (定説ではない) ; . no page The Reflexive yay-
  9. Beyond the basic reflexive reading it also functions as a reflexive-possessive, marking the subject-coreferent possessor of an incorporated nominal, and it enters a 'pretend to' construction when combined with the causative suffixes -re and -ka ; . no page The Reflexive-Possessive si- and the yay-/si- Division
  10. The classic pair is → 'pop up by swimming (volitionally)' versus 'float up of itself', attributed to Kindaichi (1931: 149, reported by ) and . no page The Reflexive-Possessive si- and the yay-/si- Division
  11. Satō himself qualifies the account as not yet established (定説ではない) . no page The Reflexive-Possessive si- and the yay-/si- Division
  12. The agentive/patientive framing (Kirikae 1994: 316, reported by ) separates the forms at the thematic role level, but feigning sleep — — is agentive and falls outside the patientive characterisation. no page The Reflexive-Possessive si- and the yay-/si- Division
  13. Under Satō's analysis, adopted by Nakagawa and the Handbook, si- marks the subject's indirect involvement — through another agent, through circumstance, or through a force outside the subject's direct control ; ; . 31–39 Middle, Anticausative, and the (Non-)Passive Question
  14. The minimal pair yay-pusu 'float up volitionally (by swimming)' against si-pusu 'float up of itself' illustrates the anticausative semantics of si-: the event is profiled as spontaneous, with an affected participant rising without an expressed agent . 31–32 Middle, Anticausative, and the (Non-)Passive Question