East / West versions of "smell it"

        
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East / West versions of "smell it"

Unread postby TommyLee » Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:22 am

In trying to look up "I smell it" I have run into something I would like to ask the list about. In Cook's dissertation, "A Grammar of North Carolina Cherokee", he gives the verb "to smell it" as :
-:hwsv:'ga (underlying -:whsv:'ga) - transitive
1. tsi:'wasv:'ga
I smell it
6. hi:hwasv:'ga
you smell it
9. ga:hwasv:'ga
he smells it
(He lists out 60 bound pronoun forms of the verb.)
These are obviously type A bound pronouns.
However, Durbin Feeling in his dictionary on page 183 shows it with type B pronouns.
u:wa:wsv:ga v.t. he smells it
agiwsvga

Does anyone know if there are other incidences of variation between type A and type B between East and West?
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