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

19.2. ‘Some’

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Models
1)YÁ¸ TŦE NI¸.‘Some went.’
2)NI¸ TŦE YÁ¸.‘There are some that went.’
3)NI¸ TŦE NE TÁLE.‘I have some money.’
 
4)EWE S MEQ TŦE TÁLE.‘It’s some of the money.’
5)EWE S MEQ NE SȻENET TŦE TÁLE.‘I took some of the money.’

‣ 1 The word ‘some’ in English has a number of meanings and uses. It can be used as an adjective or adverb as in ‘She is some swimmer!’ or ‘Some guy was here.’ or ‘I want some food.’ or ‘We’ve been working for some time.’ or ‘Some twenty people were there.’ It can also be used as a pronoun or adjective meaning ‘some, but not all.’ It is only this last meaning, ‘some, but not all,’ as shown in the models, that we are considering here.
‣ 2 The SENĆOŦEN word NI¸, translated as ‘some’ in the models, also has other meanings. In its most basic use, it is translated ‘exists,’ as in NI¸ SEN ‘I exist.’ It can also mean ‘be born,’ as in NI¸ TŦE NE ṈENE¸ ‘My child was born.’
‣ 3 The ‘exist’ translation can be roughly used in some of the models. For example, the third model could be translated ‘My money exists.’ Generally, when translated ‘some,’ NI¸ means ‘not all and not nothing.’
‣ 4 The word NI¸ can also be used to mean ‘there’s more’ or ‘there’s still some left,’ as in NI¸ TŦE S¸IȽEN ‘There’s more food’ or ‘There’s food left.’ It still can be literally translated ‘The food exists’ or ‘There’s some food.’
‣ 5 The root NI¸ ‘exist’ is also found in the common word EWENE ‘not exist, nothing’ (§12.5). The stress on EWENE is on the first E, taking away any stress on NI¸. As usual, unstressed vowels become E.
‣ 6 The last two models (4 and 5) show an entirely different way to express ‘some.’ The key phrase is EWE S MEQ. This literally means ‘not all.’ This usage is preferred by some elders to express ‘some’ meaning ‘not all and not nothing.’ Often MEQ is preceded by the U¸ ‘contrast’ prefix (§56.1), as in EWE S U¸ MEQ.
 
NI¸ E TŦE S¸IȽEN?‘Is there some food?’
EWE. IȽEN SEN TŦE U¸ MEQ STÁṈ.‘No. I ate everything.’
NI¸ E TŦE EN¸ TÁLE?‘Do you have some money?’
HÁE. ȻENET SW̱ NI¸ ¸E TŦE NE TÁLE.‘Yes. Take some of my money.’
 
19.2A. Translate each of the following into English.
1. IȽEN TŦE NI¸.
2. IȽEN SEN ¸E TŦE NI¸.
3. NI¸ E TŦE S¸IȽEN?
4. ȻENETEṈ ¸E TŦE NI¸.
5. ȻENETEṈ TŦE NI¸ ¸E ȻSE MEQ SÁN.
6. ȻENET TŦE NI¸.		19.2B. Translate each of the following into SENĆOŦEN.
1. Some of them went.
2. Some of my friends went.
3. Did some go?
4. They took some food.
5. I ate some.
6. Take some food.
19.2C. Make up four more sentences using NI¸.

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  1. 12.5. ‘None,’ ‘nothing,’ and ‘not exist’
  2. 56.1. TU¸- ‘kind of,’ I¸- ‘process,’ U¸- ‘contrast’