SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language Main Menu Contents Preface Acknowledgments PART 1 Introduction The organization of this grammar The Place of SENĆOŦEN in the Salishan Language Family Basics of the SENĆOŦEN word Useful phrases PART 2 The SENĆOŦEN Alphabet and Sounds Consonants Vowels and Diphthongs Notes on Pronunciation PART 3 SENĆOŦEN Grammatical Patterns 1 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 2 Past and Future Tense 3 Basic Speech Acts 4 Nouns and Articles 5 Possessive Pronouns 6 Adjectives 7 Basic Word Order 8 The Preposition 9 Serial Verbs 10 Auxiliaries 11 Conjunction: ‘And/with’ and ‘but/without’ 12 No and Not 13 Self and Each Other 14 More Negative Words 15 Questions: ‘Who?,’ ‘What?,’ ‘Someone,’ ‘Something’ 16 Questions: ‘Do what?,’ ‘Say what?,’ and ‘Which one?’ 17 Subordinate Subjects in Questions 18 Questions: ‘Whose?’ 19 Every, All, Any, and Some 20 Comparison 21 Questions: ‘When?’ 22 Numbers 23 Time Expressions 24 Time Prefixes 25 Questions: ‘Where?’ 26 Location Expressions 27 Paths 28 Questions: ‘How?’ and ‘How much?’ 29 Adverbial Expressions 30 Conditional Clauses 31 Should, Must, Ought to, Want to 32 Object Pronouns 33 Passive 34 Strong, Weak, and Zero Stems 35 Participant Roles and Middle Voice 36 Recipient, Beneficiary, and Other Participants 37 Lexical Suffixes 38 Questions: ‘Why?’ 39 Because 40 Cause 41 Collective Plural 42 The Actual Aspect 43 State, Result, and Duration 44 Activity Suffixes 45 Reflexive, Inchoative, and Noncontrol Middle 46 Ȼ Clauses 47 Relative Clauses 48 Speech Act Modifiers 49 Possessed Verbs 50 Summary of Particles with Ȼ 51 So Then ... 52 Reporting Verbs and Direct Quotes 53 Indirect Quotes 54 Verbal Prefixes 55 Nominalizing Prefixes 56 Adverbial Prefixes 57 More Demonstrative Articles 58 Objects of Intent and Emotion 59 More Reduplication Patterns 60 Interjections 61 Politeness Expressions 62 Rare Prefixes and Suffixes 63 A Fully Annotated Text 64 Texts to Annotate Appendix A: Technical Description of SENĆOŦEN Sounds Appendix B: SENĆOŦEN Pronouns Appendix C: Demonstrative Articles Appendix D: SENĆOŦEN Kin Terms Appendix E: Index to Technical Linguistic Topics Appendix F: Vocabulary Bibliography SENĆOŦEN Dictionary Basic SENĆOŦEN Dictionary without root and affix indexes

12.4. ‘Not yet’

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1)YÁ¸.‘It/he/she goes.’
2)W̱U¸Á S YÁ¸.‘It/he/she does not yet go.’
3)ȻENETES.‘It/he/she takes it.’
4)W̱U¸Á S ȻENETES.‘It/he/she does not yet take it.’

‣ 1 Compare this pattern with the pattern for EWE in §12.1. The pattern is almost the same. An obvious difference is that instead of the word EWE ‘not,’ we have the word W̱U¸Á ‘not yet.’ Try to see the other obvious difference.
‣ 2 The other major difference between the grammar of W̱U¸Á and EWE is that W̱U¸Á is followed only by a verb. It is not grammatical to say something like *W̱U¸Á S SNEW̱EȽ to mean ‘It’s not yet a canoe’ or *W̱U¸Á S ÍY¸ to mean ‘It’s not yet good.’ To express these ideas in SENĆOŦEN you have to convert the noun or adjective into a verb with a prefix like TW̱E- ‘become’ (see §54). Therefore, W̱U¸Á S TW̱E SNEW̱EȽ does mean ‘It’s not yet become a canoe’ and W̱U¸Á S TW̱E ÍY¸ means ‘It’s not yet become good.’
‣ 3 Notice that just as with EWE the negative S comes between the W̱U¸Á and the negated word.
‣ 4 Just as with EWE, when the negated word is intransitive, the sentence actually has two meanings. Depending on how it is used, it can be a negative statement or a weak, negative command. So, for example, W̱U¸Á S YÁ¸ can mean ‘he/she/it did not yet go’ or it can mean ‘don’t go yet.’
‣ 5 The negative S is sometimes pronounced SE.
‣ 6 There is another way of expressing the idea of ‘not yet.’ This other method uses the word SQȺ ‘can’t’ in a construction with a special ‘yet’ prefix ȾÁW¸. This pattern is described in §14.1.
 
YÁ¸ E SW̱ DOQ? ‘Are you going home?’
W̱U¸Á SEN S YÁ¸.‘I’m not going yet.’
ÍY¸. IȽEN E SE¸ SW̱?‘Okay. Are you going to eat?’
W̱U¸Á SEN S IȽEN.‘I didn’t eat yet.’

12.4A. Which of these sentences is ungrammatical? If it is ungrammatical, explain why it is. If it is grammatical, translate the sentence. If you see a word you do not know, look it up in the SENĆOŦEN dictionary.
1. W̱U¸Á S NEḴEṈ.
2. W̱U¸Á SEN S IȽEN.
3. W̱U¸Á S ȽÁU¸.
4. W̱U¸Á S JISEṈ.
5. W̱U¸Á S QENETES.
6. W̱U¸Á S TÁLE.
7. W̱U¸Á S YÁ¸ SEN.
8. W̱U¸Á SEN S X̱EṈ.
9. W̱U¸Á ¸Á SW̱ S IȽEN?
10. W̱U¸Á S SḴAXE¸.
 

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