giɬts’ayath da’ k’idz neg yindaghɬcheth. summer caribou skin parka little nice he put on her ‘She took it off and he put a nice little parka on her.’ Ngiyixi che qatrith neg xiday. down too moccasins nice somewhere ‘Down were nice moccasins too.’ Łeq’ath tl’idz yan’ ye niyaghinh. fish skin black only in the one who grew up ‘(Meanwhile) she had grown up in only black fish skin.’ Niq’oɬonh yozr xit’ache iy yuxudz, degha antitlnek. woman dear sure it just her older brother she started to work for ‘Then the dear woman started to work for her older brother.’ (Chel) () Spectrogram and pitch of insubordinate sentence in (27), along with first part of following sentence In the passage in ), the sentence marked as insubordinate within the box contains two instances of –di. Judging from the translation provided by a bilingual speaker, the first instance of –di marks a temporal clause which is subordinate to the second. The second clause is also marked with –di, and provides background information about the price for marten fur that winter. () Background information Vigidangan hal ye tsodlig k’idz yan’ didltth’e. his trap in squirrel little only pl. sit ‘Only little squirrels were sitting in his traps.’ Che xizronche vits’antitr’ithidatl che xizronche again EVID we went back to them again EVID gitsighiy viyedhidodi. marten when it’s sitting in it ‘Then we went back (to our traps) again and there was another marten in (one of her traps).’ Yuxudz sidigits’eyh! completely I’m happy ‘I was really happy!’ Axaxiɬdi Q’unodle chux etthing xiq’antr’ididatldi, then Christmas down when we went back vidiɬghoy ngichoxdi xizronche go teqa gitsighiy.
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