He Lives Here 1

Daisy's Passive Knowledge of Milluk:  In this interview segment, it sounds like Daisy is saying that Lolly had gotten something wrong.  At the beginning of the tape-recorded part of the interview Daisy says that she didn’t actually speak the language, so it is not surprising that she knew less about the full range of the meanings of the verb [ dlú·ɢ̣wa ], pronounced by Lolly as [ dlú·gwa ], than both Lolly Metcalf and Annie Miner Peterson knew about this Milluk verb.  We know what Lolly and Annie knew based on their actual use of this verb.  Lolly and Annie both knew that it could mean ‘live somewhere’, 'stay somewhere', ‘reside’, as well as meaning ‘sit’.  Daisy thought that it could mean only ‘sit’, as in ‘sit down’.  That suggests that Daisy heard the word only in situations such as being told to sit down, but did not hear the word used in situatiuons where someone was talking about someone living somewhere.