SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language

45 Reflexive, Inchoative, and Noncontrol Middle

This chapter covers two common and useful intransitive suffixes. You have already seen the ‑SET/‑SOT reflexive in §13.1. In that early chapter, it was mentioned that there are uses of this suffix other than to refer to oneself. Those other uses are covered in §45.1.

Also in §13.1 it was mentioned that there are other ways of getting across the idea of ‘self’ in SENĆOŦEN. We saw one of those other ways in §35.1, where the ‘middle’ suffix can be interpreted as ‘self.’ There is another suffix that can occasionally be interpreted as ‘self.’ This other suffix is the ‘noncontrol middle,’ which is covered in §45.2.
 

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