Abstract
Like the other Northern Iroquoian languages, Oneida has a set of about a dozen verbal prefixes that precede the pronominal prefixes and add certain modal and adverbial alterations to the root meaning of the verb. Two of these, named the translocative and the cislocative by Lounsbury, have several uses that center on location and direction.' The appropriate generalization of their main use was first made by Lounsbury (1953) and has often been reiterated:
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