From cqcqcq at pgtv.net Mon Apr 1 14:50:45 2002 From: cqcqcq at pgtv.net (Carolyn Quintero) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:50:45 -0600 Subject: Dhegiha stuff. Message-ID: Bob, Thanks for pointing this out. I have never found anything like this at all in Osage speech. iNks$e is what I find, over and over. Only a couple of occurences of dhiNk$e, if I remember right, but I take the two to be the same. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rankin, Robert L" To: Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Dhegiha stuff. I was going through the La Flesche Osage dictionary and ran across the entry "thoN-dsi" /dhaN ci/ 'at the', a locative classifier. There are examples of the sort: haNpa �htaxe �aN-ci 'At the break of day.' (p. 64) day its.tip the.sitting-LOC zaNc� $e-�aN-ci 'at yonder forest' (p. 153) forest that-the.sitting-LOC The entry and accompanying examples are interesting because they suggest that the old inanimate-sitting article, dhaN, has been retained in Osage in the locative classifiers, even though it has been replaced by the animate-sitting dhiNk$e when it occurs as a simple article. La Flesche's transcription mirrors real Osage here, so I'm wondering if the use of dhaN is real or if, perhaps, he inadvertently substituted the Omaha-Ponca article (which we've always thought no longer existed in Osage). I haven't been able to find any instances of the dhaN particle in Carolyn's dissertation yet. Bob From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 1 15:10:53 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:10:53 -0700 Subject: Dhegiha stuff. In-Reply-To: <005c01c1d98c$a291d680$0e15460a@direcpc.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Carolyn Quintero wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. I have never found anything like this at all > in Osage speech. iNks$e is what I find, over and over. Only a couple of > occurences of dhiNk$e, if I remember right, but I take the two to be the > same. I didn't spot any instances of dhaN in Dorsey's one Osage text, but the referents are primarily human. That reduction of dhiNks^e to iNks^e occurs with dhiNkhe in Omaha-Ponca, too. I've certainly heard it, and I think there may even be some examples in the texts. JEK From nancyh at linguist.umass.edu Tue Apr 2 18:55:23 2002 From: nancyh at linguist.umass.edu (Nancy E Hall) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:55:23 -0500 Subject: Dorsey's Law Message-ID: Hello, I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and other Siouan languages. 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: /tarv/ -> [tarav] /merg/ -> [mereg] etc. (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a word, etc. Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? Nancy From rood at spot.Colorado.EDU Tue Apr 2 19:19:25 2002 From: rood at spot.Colorado.EDU (ROOD DAVID S) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:19:25 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail somewhere. David David S. Rood Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Colorado 295 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0295 USA rood at colorado.edu On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few > questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and > other Siouan languages. > > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). > > 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between > sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: > > /tarv/ -> [tarav] > /merg/ -> [mereg] > etc. > > (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the > sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) > An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native > speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in > some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one > note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a > word, etc. > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? > > Nancy > From nancyh at linguist.umass.edu Tue Apr 2 20:33:16 2002 From: nancyh at linguist.umass.edu (Nancy E Hall) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:33:16 -0500 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Right- and they also count as monosyllables for reduplication. It seems like there are some good phonological arguments for monosyllabicity in the Winnebago case, so I'm curious whether there is any external support from metrics, pausing tests, tapping tests, speaker comments, etc. the way there is in Gaelic. I've listened to some tapes of Winnebago elicitation by Fraenkel, and my impression is that when the consultant is producing words emphatically in isolation, he sometimes pauses slightly between syllables, but not within a Dorsey's Law sequence. But this evidence isn't strong, unless it can be corroborated by an actual fieldworker. Nancy On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, ROOD DAVID S wrote: > A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: > Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables > for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or > second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for > Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail > somewhere. > David > > David S. Rood > Dept. of Linguistics > Univ. of Colorado > 295 UCB > Boulder, CO 80309-0295 > USA > rood at colorado.edu > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few > > questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and > > other Siouan languages. > > > > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). > > > > 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between > > sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: > > > > /tarv/ -> [tarav] > > /merg/ -> [mereg] > > etc. > > > > (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the > > sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) > > An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native > > speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in > > some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one > > note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a > > word, etc. > > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? > > > > Nancy > > > From rankin at ku.edu Tue Apr 2 20:51:02 2002 From: rankin at ku.edu (Rankin, Robert L) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:51:02 -0600 Subject: Dorsey's Law Message-ID: >I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and other Siouan languages. Bruce Hays' book on metrical phonology summarizes the entire series of arguments on Winnebago phonology nicely and has references to the original sources. You might try to contact Ken Miner, the author of several of the papers on WI phonology and about the only person with an interest in phonology and a lot of field experience with WI, and see if he can help you. He has been retired from the Univ. of Kansas for a couple of years but probably still has an email account with the University. The other person to write to is Mauricio Mixco at the Univ. of Utah. Mo has worked with Mandan speakers, and Mandan also has a Dorsey's Law phenomenon. There are no doubt lots of studies of Russian, Ukrainian, etc. polnoglasie available too. It's somewhat similar. Also, Hungarian borrowings of western words often have epenthetic copy vowels as I recall. Bob Rankin From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Wed Apr 3 04:45:18 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:45:18 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). WRT Omaha, where there isn't any subsequent accentual shift, and where the vowel introduced into obstruent-sonant clusters is schwa, essentially a phonetic element of the cluster, I've heard "England" in context in English and Omaha produced with a consistent schwa in gl. In Winnebago all I can offer is that searching the English loan words (so-marked) in Miner's unpublished Field Lexicon yielded c^ra'ak and sn^a'ap (n^ = n-hacek, or r as pronounced after a nasal vowel). Although the use of n^ instead of n is perhaps suggestive, it certainly appears to me that both these forms should exhibit Dorsey's Law, if it were productive, but do not. Incidentally, VrT forms appear with V(V) for Vr, cf. poa'c^ 'porch' and one that I've always loved since first I noticed it, ko'iNnsta'c^ 'cornstarch'. There's also kearapuNuNniya' 'California'. > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? As nearly as I can recall, all OP forms in ##bdh or ##(S)n are initially stressed - notably in verbs. (I guess xdhabe' 'tree' is an exception of sorts.) So that these clusters appear to be two-mora syllables. I suspect that the same is true of Ioway-Otoe and Winnebago (historically). On the other hand, Dakotan handles these as one mora syllables as far as I know. For Winnebago specifically, it might be worth consulting Josie White Eagle's dissertation on the use of Winnebago language introspection in science education. (I hope this is a fair assessment of at least part of it - since I know it only at second hand.) In addition, her intuitions presumably underlie any descriptive material in her article with Hale. I don't recall any mention anywhere of syllabicity tests. From John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU Wed Apr 3 05:38:59 2002 From: John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:38:59 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, ROOD DAVID S wrote: > A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: > Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables > for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or > second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for > Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail > somewhere. There are some problems with this statement. I think David meant to say something like "Before the application of the Winnebago Accent Law (shift accent one syllable to the right) but after the application of Dorsey's Law (insert a copy of V between T and R in TRV), stress was normally on the first or second syllable of non-DL words (words without TRV sequences), but on the second or third for DL (TRV-including) forms." In other words, you found words like *CV(V)'CV and *CVCV'CV, and when CV was TRV which got expanded to TVRV, you also found words like *TVRV'CV or *TVRVCV'CV. Subsequently these became CV(V)CV', CVCVCV', TVRVCV', and TVRVCVCV'. Of course, words like *CV(V)', *CV(V)'C, and *TVRV' were unaffected. As were cases like *CVCV' and *TVRVCV'. Accent can't be placed on or moved onto a non-existant syllable. There are some words which have two DL, followed by other syllables, in which accent originally fell on the second DL, and which therefore are now accented on the fifth syllable: **TRVTRV'CV => TVRVTVRVCV'. There are also words of the form *CV'TVRV and *CVTVRV'CV that come out CVTV'RV and CVTVRVCV'. Accent can only end up on RV of TVRV, if it started there before the Winnebago Accent Law. Otherwise it is only on TV' or TVRV. For me the important generalizations are therefore that accent before the effects of DL and the WAL was on the first or second syllable, and only the separate or combined effects of DL and then the WAL (plus the existence of following syllables) can push accent beyond these points. The WAL always pushes accent one syllable if it can, but only the existence of one or two DL applications can boost it beyond the third syllable. Turning from this to the issue of vowel length, it appears to me that all Winnebago long vowels and/or diphthongs correspond either to (a) monosyllables, (b) loanwords (like kearipuNuNiya' 'California'), (c) bimorphemic syllables, or (d) old initial accents (cases like *CV(V)'CV that appears as CVCVCV'. Thus Siouanists are left with a situation in which Pre-Winnebago provides no more evidence than the existing Siouan languages to help us determine whether initial accent and initial long syllables are independent or interdependent and how. This does not mean, of course, Winnebago proves there were no long initials, but only that it doesn't do any more toward proving that there were such long syllables than, say, properly heard Omaha-Ponca or Ioway-Otoe. It's pretty obvious that many initial accents fall on long vowels, and Winnebago certainly shows that this combination of features can be resolved into separate features. From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 8 15:31:15 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:31:15 -0600 Subject: From SSILA Bulletin #162 on the National Anthropological Archives (fwd) Message-ID: You may want to get your delete key ready! I'll take the liberty of reading this into the Siouan List. Any discipline as dependent on the BAE files of Dorsey and others as Siouan studies should be aware of the status of the National Anthropological Archives. I apologize that some many of you will have seen this already, but I know that a substantial minority of the subscribers are probably not SSILA members and might benefit both from seeing this and from knowing something of the services offered by SSILA, too. SSILA has a web site at http://www.ssila.org, maintained at present by Ardis Eschenberg, a member of this list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 06:47:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott DeLancey Reply-To: ssila at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU To: ssila at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Subject: SSILA Bulletin #162 THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS *** SSILA BULLETIN *** An Information Service for SSILA Members Editor - Victor Golla (golla at ssila.org) Associate Editor - Scott DeLancey (delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu) -->> --Correspondence should be directed to the Editor-- <<-- __________________________________________________________________________ Number 162: April 8, 2002 __________________________________________________________________________ ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 162.2 NAA REOPENS AT NEW LOCATION AFTER YEAR-LONG CLOSURE >>From Robert Leopold (Leopold at NMNH.SI.EDU) 3 Apr 2002: The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives reopened on March 12 at a new location in the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, after being closed to the public for more than a year. Researchers who visited the NAA at its former location at the National Museum of Natural History know that the move was long overdue. Our former reading room was cramped and noisy. Collections storage was outdated and security was virtually absent. Our new location in suburban Maryland, by contrast, is a state-of-the-art research, conservation, and collections storage facility. The Museum Support Center sits on 6 acres of wooded federal land adjacent to the Museum of the American Indian's Cultural Resource Center. MSC contains more than 500,000 square feet of storage and office space, which is shared by the National Museum of Natural History and other Smithsonian museums, as well as the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education (our new upstairs neighbor). The Department of Anthropology takes up the lion's share of collections storage at MSC. In fact, the archives are the last of the department's collections to be relocated to the suburban location. Its ethnology, archaeology and physical anthropology collections began their move to MSC in 1983, and today nearly a third of the department's staff of 91 work in Maryland. The move to MSC has also provided the perfect opportunity -- and the necessary funding -- to perform preservation rehousing for much of the collection. During the past year, archives staff and scores of volunteers rehoused and stabilized hundreds of thousands of photographs and placed the majority of our manuscript collection (totaling more than 7,800 linear feet) into new acid-free folders and boxes, in some cases replacing storage containers that arrived with collections in the 19th century. (The NAA began life as the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnology, founded in 1879, although many of its collections were produced even earlier.) At MSC, visiting researchers will now be able to study associated archival and artifact collections within easy reach of each other, rather than having to go back and forth between Washington and Maryland. In fact, the NAA's new reading room was designed from the ground up with researcher needs in mind, including desktop Internet connections that allow visiting researchers to check their e-mail. Visiting the archives at its new location, while somewhat less convenient than before, is fairly easy, and we think the benefits of our new location far outweigh the inconvenience. A shuttle bus stops at the National Museum of Natural History (Constitution Avenue side) at five minutes after the hour and arrives at the Museum Support Center 30 minutes later. The shuttle is available weekdays between 8:05 am and 5:05 pm. Public Transportation is also available via Metrorail; the MSC is a 10-15 minute walk from the Suitland Metro station. Free on-site parking is also available. Annually, more than 600 people visited the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives when they were last open, and more than a thousand others visit the NAA/HSFA Web site each day. To make an appointment to visit the NAA, call 301/238-2873 or e-mail . Directions for reaching the archives are available on the NAA web site: . --Robert Leopold Archives & Collections Information Manager Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution (leopold at nmnh.si.edu) ... From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 9 14:02:23 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:02:23 -0600 Subject: Ioway Nation site finally has a new home (fwd) Message-ID: I thought this would interest other Siouanists. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:12:10 -0700 From: Juli Kearns To: john.koontz at colorado.edu Subject: Ioway Nation site finally has a new home John, Just writing to let you know I finally dug up what looks like a permanent home for the Ioway Nation site. I contacted NativeWeb and they consented to host it, so it is now up there. The URL is: http://ioway.nativeweb.com The Jimm GoodTracks texts in Ioway are here: http://ioway.nativeweb.org/language/textsinioway.htm Hope you're doing well. Juli From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Tue Apr 9 15:38:17 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:38:17 +0100 Subject: Regina Pustet Message-ID: Dear Siouanist Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried her old one, but my message was sent back. Bruce Dr. Bruce Ingham Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies SOAS From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 9 17:06:18 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:06:18 -0600 Subject: Regina Pustet In-Reply-To: <3CB318F9.14916.20EE4EE@localhost> Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote: > Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried > her old one, but my message was sent back. The U of Colorado one is now defunct. I've sent Bruce two others that should still be good. JEK From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Tue Apr 9 17:19:13 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:19:13 +0100 Subject: Regina Pustet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks all for the info on Regina bruce On 9 Apr 2002, at 11:06, Koontz John E wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote: > > Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried > > her old one, but my message was sent back. > > The U of Colorado one is now defunct. I've sent Bruce two others that > should still be good. > > JEK > Dr. Bruce Ingham Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies SOAS From jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu Fri Apr 26 19:46:52 2002 From: jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu (John Boyle) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:46:52 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <000a01c1d2c2$3bbfd2c0$929ff0c7@rcarter> Message-ID: Hi All, Have people thought about where they are going to be staying? It is seems to work out well if we are in the same place. See you there, John Boyle >SCALC 2002 >Announcement and Call For Papers > >The 2002 meeting of the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will >be held at Black Hills State University, in Spearfish, South Dakota, >on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. Those wishing to present >papers should submit a title and brief abstract to the convener, >Dick Carter, by May 25. (This would be best accomplished by sending >the abstract as an e-mail attachment >to RichardCarter at bhsu.edu.) This >year we will have a "parasession" on Friday morning devoted to >papers that test contemporary ideas in linguistic theory against >data from Siouan or Caddoan languages -- although papers which >incorporate additional data from other language families will also >be welcome. Other sessions will welcome papers on any topic >concerning Siouan or Caddoan languages. > >Rooms for conference participants have been reserved at Pangborn >Hall, a university dormitory. Those planning to attend the >conference and reside in the dormitory should inform the convener by >e-mail. Our rooms will be on the first floor. Room costs will be >$10.80 per night for double occupancy, $21.60 per night for single >occupancy, with an additional 8% in tax. Persons residing on campus >are also charged a facilities use fee of $7.50, plus 6% tax. There >will also be a nominal registration fee for all participants, to >cover the cost of coffee-break refreshments. Those who find >dormitory living too Spartan may make their own arrangements at one >of the many motels. The following would be good choices: > > Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) > Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) > Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) > Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) > >Spearfish is located at the northern end of the beautiful Black >Hills, and weather at the end of May is ordinarily delightful. For >those planning to drive, Spearfish is located on Interstate Hwy. 90 >about 45 miles north of Rapid City, South Dakota. Those traveling >by air will fly to Rapid City Regional Airport, at which point it >would be easiest to rent a car for the (roughly) 60 mile trip to >Spearfish. There is much to see in the area: the drive through >Spearfish Canyon, a federally designated "Scenic Byway", is >especially fine in late spring. For those interested, casino >gambling is available in the historic town of Deadwood, 17 miles >away. (Supply your own money. And yes, Kevin Costner does give you >better odds than the state and national lotteries.) > >For those staying on campus: dormitory staff will be available for >check-in anytime after noon on Thursday, May 30, and will help with >checkout from 10 AM - 12 Noon on Sunday, June 2. (Those wishing to >leave on Saturday night may do so, of course.) Those needing >additional information or assistance should contact Dick Carter at >the above e-mail address. He can also be reached by phone at >605-642-6540. > >See you all in beautiful Spearfish!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cqcqcq at pgtv.net Fri Apr 26 21:44:39 2002 From: cqcqcq at pgtv.net (Carolyn Quintero) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:44:39 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 Message-ID: Re: SCALC 2002Good idea, John, to try to stay at the same place. Does anyone know room rates at the different hotels? I think I'll rent a car in Rapid City. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: John Boyle To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: SCALC 2002 Hi All, Have people thought about where they are going to be staying? It is seems to work out well if we are in the same place. See you there, John Boyle SCALC 2002 Announcement and Call For Papers The 2002 meeting of the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will be held at Black Hills State University, in Spearfish, South Dakota, on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. Those wishing to present papers should submit a title and brief abstract to the convener, Dick Carter, by May 25. (This would be best accomplished by sending the abstract as an e-mail attachment to RichardCarter at bhsu.edu.) This year we will have a "parasession" on Friday morning devoted to papers that test contemporary ideas in linguistic theory against data from Siouan or Caddoan languages -- although papers which incorporate additional data from other language families will also be welcome. Other sessions will welcome papers on any topic concerning Siouan or Caddoan languages. Rooms for conference participants have been reserved at Pangborn Hall, a university dormitory. Those planning to attend the conference and reside in the dormitory should inform the convener by e-mail. Our rooms will be on the first floor. Room costs will be $10.80 per night for double occupancy, $21.60 per night for single occupancy, with an additional 8% in tax. Persons residing on campus are also charged a facilities use fee of $7.50, plus 6% tax. There will also be a nominal registration fee for all participants, to cover the cost of coffee-break refreshments. Those who find dormitory living too Spartan may make their own arrangements at one of the many motels. The following would be good choices: Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Spearfish is located at the northern end of the beautiful Black Hills, and weather at the end of May is ordinarily delightful. For those planning to drive, Spearfish is located on Interstate Hwy. 90 about 45 miles north of Rapid City, South Dakota. Those traveling by air will fly to Rapid City Regional Airport, at which point it would be easiest to rent a car for the (roughly) 60 mile trip to Spearfish. There is much to see in the area: the drive through Spearfish Canyon, a federally designated "Scenic Byway", is especially fine in late spring. For those interested, casino gambling is available in the historic town of Deadwood, 17 miles away. (Supply your own money. And yes, Kevin Costner does give you better odds than the state and national lotteries.) For those staying on campus: dormitory staff will be available for check-in anytime after noon on Thursday, May 30, and will help with checkout from 10 AM - 12 Noon on Sunday, June 2. (Those wishing to leave on Saturday night may do so, of course.) Those needing additional information or assistance should contact Dick Carter at the above e-mail address. He can also be reached by phone at 605-642-6540. See you all in beautiful Spearfish!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu Sat Apr 27 14:53:00 2002 From: jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu (John Boyle) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:53:00 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <000a01c1d2c2$3bbfd2c0$929ff0c7@rcarter> Message-ID: Hi All, Just a little research on prices and such. Does anyone have any preferences? John Boyle > > > Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Single $ 55.00 Double $ 60.00 Pool yes Restaurant no Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------------------------------------- > Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Single $ 59.00 or $53.00 (with AAA discount) Double $ 69.00 or $63.00 (with AAA discount) Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant - next door Hours 24 hours Bar no Hours -- ------------------------------------------- > Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.99 Double $ 69.99 Pool yes (the largest in Spearfish!) + hot tub Restaurant yes Hours 6:00 PM - 2:00 PM/ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bar yes Hours 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM > Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.00 Double $ 79.00 Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant no (across street there is an Applebee's) Hours -- Bar no Hours -- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cqcqcq at pgtv.net Sat Apr 27 15:54:08 2002 From: cqcqcq at pgtv.net (Carolyn Quintero) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:54:08 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 Message-ID: Re: SCALC 2002John, thanks for your hotel research. I'd vote for the Kelly Inn, since it seems to have the best prices for a single (with AAA, which I have), pool and hot tub and 24 hour restaurant next door. But I'd go along with whatever others decide. I plan to rent a car, so would be able to offer a ride to anyone who wants. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: John Boyle To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: SCALC 2002 Hi All, Just a little research on prices and such. Does anyone have any preferences? John Boyle Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Single $ 55.00 Double $ 60.00 Pool yes Restaurant no Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------------------------------------- Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Single $ 59.00 or $53.00 (with AAA discount) Double $ 69.00 or $63.00 (with AAA discount) Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant - next door Hours 24 hours Bar no Hours -- ------------------------------------------- Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.99 Double $ 69.99 Pool yes (the largest in Spearfish!) + hot tub Restaurant yes Hours 6:00 PM - 2:00 PM/ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bar yes Hours 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.00 Double $ 79.00 Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant no (across street there is an Applebee's) Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 29 02:11:51 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:11:51 -0600 Subject: Reviused Address for Dryer's OP Concordances Message-ID: Siouanists interested in consulting the concordances Matthew Dryver made for Ardis Eschenberg from the Siouan Archives Dorsey texts should now see: http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/omaha.conc.sit .../omaha.conc.rev.sit .../omaha.conc.engl.sit His description: >Concordances of Dorsey's Omaha Texts > >These concordances are meant to be looked at on one's computer screen. >They are far too long to print out. (If you tried, they would be over >20,000 pages.) > >There are three concordances, the main one (Omaha, alphabetical), the >reverse Omaha one, and the English-based one. Each concordance contains >20 or more documents, one for each letter. Each concordance also contains >an additional document with the suffix "list" (before the .rtf suffix) >which is a list of all the words in the order they occur in that >concordance and their frequency in the Dorsey texts. > >They are all RTF documents. Except for the list documents, they must be >opened from within Microsoft Word on a Mac. I don't know if this is also >necessary in Windows. The choice of nonstandard characters is based on >what seems to work in Windows (the accent mark does not come out right on >a Mac). A tilde using its own space is used for the nasalization symbol. > >There are three StuffIt documents, one for each of the three concourdance. >Each will expland into a folder containing the 20 or more documents making >up that concordance. Each of the three StuffIt documents is about 4MB. >When unstuffed, these three concordances require a total of about 80MB of >hard disk space. > >The three concordances are at the following URL's: Where to get StuffIt, a program that can handle sit archives: > You can get a StuffIt unstuffer for dealing with the concordance SIT > archives at http://www.stuffit.com/expander/index.html. Do a custom > install and only install the expander. Don't let it handle files with > other extensions unless you want to use it instead of whatever > unzippers, etc., you already use. From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Mon Apr 29 10:40:14 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:40:14 +0100 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <001001c1ed6b$978a6e80$0e15460a@direcpc.com> Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 7035 bytes Desc: not available URL: From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 30 13:51:47 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:51:47 -0600 Subject: Reviused Address for Dryer's OP Concordances In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Koontz John E wrote: > Siouanists interested in consulting the concordances Matthew Dryver made > for Ardis Eschenberg ... Correction: it's Dryer. From strechter at csuchico.edu Tue Apr 30 21:42:00 2002 From: strechter at csuchico.edu (Trechter, Sara) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:42:00 -0700 Subject: Revised Address for Dryer's OP Concordances Message-ID: Hi, these are a great resource. I just tried downloading the concordances, and was sent to this address: http://wings.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/omaha.conc.sit sara From cqcqcq at pgtv.net Mon Apr 1 14:50:45 2002 From: cqcqcq at pgtv.net (Carolyn Quintero) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:50:45 -0600 Subject: Dhegiha stuff. Message-ID: Bob, Thanks for pointing this out. I have never found anything like this at all in Osage speech. iNks$e is what I find, over and over. Only a couple of occurences of dhiNk$e, if I remember right, but I take the two to be the same. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rankin, Robert L" To: Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Dhegiha stuff. I was going through the La Flesche Osage dictionary and ran across the entry "thoN-dsi" /dhaN ci/ 'at the', a locative classifier. There are examples of the sort: haNpa ?htaxe ?aN-ci 'At the break of day.' (p. 64) day its.tip the.sitting-LOC zaNc? $e-?aN-ci 'at yonder forest' (p. 153) forest that-the.sitting-LOC The entry and accompanying examples are interesting because they suggest that the old inanimate-sitting article, dhaN, has been retained in Osage in the locative classifiers, even though it has been replaced by the animate-sitting dhiNk$e when it occurs as a simple article. La Flesche's transcription mirrors real Osage here, so I'm wondering if the use of dhaN is real or if, perhaps, he inadvertently substituted the Omaha-Ponca article (which we've always thought no longer existed in Osage). I haven't been able to find any instances of the dhaN particle in Carolyn's dissertation yet. Bob From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 1 15:10:53 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 08:10:53 -0700 Subject: Dhegiha stuff. In-Reply-To: <005c01c1d98c$a291d680$0e15460a@direcpc.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Carolyn Quintero wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. I have never found anything like this at all > in Osage speech. iNks$e is what I find, over and over. Only a couple of > occurences of dhiNk$e, if I remember right, but I take the two to be the > same. I didn't spot any instances of dhaN in Dorsey's one Osage text, but the referents are primarily human. That reduction of dhiNks^e to iNks^e occurs with dhiNkhe in Omaha-Ponca, too. I've certainly heard it, and I think there may even be some examples in the texts. JEK From nancyh at linguist.umass.edu Tue Apr 2 18:55:23 2002 From: nancyh at linguist.umass.edu (Nancy E Hall) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:55:23 -0500 Subject: Dorsey's Law Message-ID: Hello, I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and other Siouan languages. 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: /tarv/ -> [tarav] /merg/ -> [mereg] etc. (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a word, etc. Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? Nancy From rood at spot.Colorado.EDU Tue Apr 2 19:19:25 2002 From: rood at spot.Colorado.EDU (ROOD DAVID S) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:19:25 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail somewhere. David David S. Rood Dept. of Linguistics Univ. of Colorado 295 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0295 USA rood at colorado.edu On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few > questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and > other Siouan languages. > > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). > > 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between > sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: > > /tarv/ -> [tarav] > /merg/ -> [mereg] > etc. > > (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the > sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) > An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native > speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in > some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one > note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a > word, etc. > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? > > Nancy > From nancyh at linguist.umass.edu Tue Apr 2 20:33:16 2002 From: nancyh at linguist.umass.edu (Nancy E Hall) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:33:16 -0500 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Right- and they also count as monosyllables for reduplication. It seems like there are some good phonological arguments for monosyllabicity in the Winnebago case, so I'm curious whether there is any external support from metrics, pausing tests, tapping tests, speaker comments, etc. the way there is in Gaelic. I've listened to some tapes of Winnebago elicitation by Fraenkel, and my impression is that when the consultant is producing words emphatically in isolation, he sometimes pauses slightly between syllables, but not within a Dorsey's Law sequence. But this evidence isn't strong, unless it can be corroborated by an actual fieldworker. Nancy On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, ROOD DAVID S wrote: > A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: > Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables > for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or > second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for > Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail > somewhere. > David > > David S. Rood > Dept. of Linguistics > Univ. of Colorado > 295 UCB > Boulder, CO 80309-0295 > USA > rood at colorado.edu > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few > > questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and > > other Siouan languages. > > > > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). > > > > 2. There's a similar-looking process of copy-vowel epenthesis between > > sonorants and obstruents in Scots Gaelic: > > > > /tarv/ -> [tarav] > > /merg/ -> [mereg] > > etc. > > > > (similar conditioning environment to Dorsey's Law, except that the > > sonorant and obstruent are in the opposite order) > > An interesting thing about the Scots Gaelic process is that native > > speakers seem to find the resulting sequence ([tarav]) monosyllabic in > > some respects- they have difficulty pausing within it, sing it on one > > note, count it as one syllable when asked to count the syllables of a > > word, etc. > > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? > > > > Nancy > > > From rankin at ku.edu Tue Apr 2 20:51:02 2002 From: rankin at ku.edu (Rankin, Robert L) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:51:02 -0600 Subject: Dorsey's Law Message-ID: >I am writing a dissertation on epenthetic vowels, and have a few questions about those that are inserted by 'Dorsey's Law' in Winnebago and other Siouan languages. Bruce Hays' book on metrical phonology summarizes the entire series of arguments on Winnebago phonology nicely and has references to the original sources. You might try to contact Ken Miner, the author of several of the papers on WI phonology and about the only person with an interest in phonology and a lot of field experience with WI, and see if he can help you. He has been retired from the Univ. of Kansas for a couple of years but probably still has an email account with the University. The other person to write to is Mauricio Mixco at the Univ. of Utah. Mo has worked with Mandan speakers, and Mandan also has a Dorsey's Law phenomenon. There are no doubt lots of studies of Russian, Ukrainian, etc. polnoglasie available too. It's somewhat similar. Also, Hungarian borrowings of western words often have epenthetic copy vowels as I recall. Bob Rankin From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Wed Apr 3 04:45:18 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:45:18 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nancy E Hall wrote: > 1. Are there any examples of loanwords that have undergone Dorsey's Law? > (I'm looking for evidence that it's synchronically productive). WRT Omaha, where there isn't any subsequent accentual shift, and where the vowel introduced into obstruent-sonant clusters is schwa, essentially a phonetic element of the cluster, I've heard "England" in context in English and Omaha produced with a consistent schwa in gl. In Winnebago all I can offer is that searching the English loan words (so-marked) in Miner's unpublished Field Lexicon yielded c^ra'ak and sn^a'ap (n^ = n-hacek, or r as pronounced after a nasal vowel). Although the use of n^ instead of n is perhaps suggestive, it certainly appears to me that both these forms should exhibit Dorsey's Law, if it were productive, but do not. Incidentally, VrT forms appear with V(V) for Vr, cf. poa'c^ 'porch' and one that I've always loved since first I noticed it, ko'iNnsta'c^ 'cornstarch'. There's also kearapuNuNniya' 'California'. > Does anyone know how native speakers view Dorsey's Law segments? > Have any tests for intuitions about syllabicity been tried? As nearly as I can recall, all OP forms in ##bdh or ##(S)n are initially stressed - notably in verbs. (I guess xdhabe' 'tree' is an exception of sorts.) So that these clusters appear to be two-mora syllables. I suspect that the same is true of Ioway-Otoe and Winnebago (historically). On the other hand, Dakotan handles these as one mora syllables as far as I know. For Winnebago specifically, it might be worth consulting Josie White Eagle's dissertation on the use of Winnebago language introspection in science education. (I hope this is a fair assessment of at least part of it - since I know it only at second hand.) In addition, her intuitions presumably underlie any descriptive material in her article with Hale. I don't recall any mention anywhere of syllabicity tests. From John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU Wed Apr 3 05:38:59 2002 From: John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:38:59 -0700 Subject: Dorsey's Law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, ROOD DAVID S wrote: > A very quick answer which someone else will probably elaborate on: > Winnebago speakers do treat the Dorsey's law sequences as single syllables > for purposes of assigning stress. Stress is normally on the first or > second syllable of non-Dorsey's law words, but on the second or third for > Dorsey's law forms. I'm sure Ken Miner has written this up in detail > somewhere. There are some problems with this statement. I think David meant to say something like "Before the application of the Winnebago Accent Law (shift accent one syllable to the right) but after the application of Dorsey's Law (insert a copy of V between T and R in TRV), stress was normally on the first or second syllable of non-DL words (words without TRV sequences), but on the second or third for DL (TRV-including) forms." In other words, you found words like *CV(V)'CV and *CVCV'CV, and when CV was TRV which got expanded to TVRV, you also found words like *TVRV'CV or *TVRVCV'CV. Subsequently these became CV(V)CV', CVCVCV', TVRVCV', and TVRVCVCV'. Of course, words like *CV(V)', *CV(V)'C, and *TVRV' were unaffected. As were cases like *CVCV' and *TVRVCV'. Accent can't be placed on or moved onto a non-existant syllable. There are some words which have two DL, followed by other syllables, in which accent originally fell on the second DL, and which therefore are now accented on the fifth syllable: **TRVTRV'CV => TVRVTVRVCV'. There are also words of the form *CV'TVRV and *CVTVRV'CV that come out CVTV'RV and CVTVRVCV'. Accent can only end up on RV of TVRV, if it started there before the Winnebago Accent Law. Otherwise it is only on TV' or TVRV. For me the important generalizations are therefore that accent before the effects of DL and the WAL was on the first or second syllable, and only the separate or combined effects of DL and then the WAL (plus the existence of following syllables) can push accent beyond these points. The WAL always pushes accent one syllable if it can, but only the existence of one or two DL applications can boost it beyond the third syllable. Turning from this to the issue of vowel length, it appears to me that all Winnebago long vowels and/or diphthongs correspond either to (a) monosyllables, (b) loanwords (like kearipuNuNiya' 'California'), (c) bimorphemic syllables, or (d) old initial accents (cases like *CV(V)'CV that appears as CVCVCV'. Thus Siouanists are left with a situation in which Pre-Winnebago provides no more evidence than the existing Siouan languages to help us determine whether initial accent and initial long syllables are independent or interdependent and how. This does not mean, of course, Winnebago proves there were no long initials, but only that it doesn't do any more toward proving that there were such long syllables than, say, properly heard Omaha-Ponca or Ioway-Otoe. It's pretty obvious that many initial accents fall on long vowels, and Winnebago certainly shows that this combination of features can be resolved into separate features. From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 8 15:31:15 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:31:15 -0600 Subject: From SSILA Bulletin #162 on the National Anthropological Archives (fwd) Message-ID: You may want to get your delete key ready! I'll take the liberty of reading this into the Siouan List. Any discipline as dependent on the BAE files of Dorsey and others as Siouan studies should be aware of the status of the National Anthropological Archives. I apologize that some many of you will have seen this already, but I know that a substantial minority of the subscribers are probably not SSILA members and might benefit both from seeing this and from knowing something of the services offered by SSILA, too. SSILA has a web site at http://www.ssila.org, maintained at present by Ardis Eschenberg, a member of this list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 06:47:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott DeLancey Reply-To: ssila at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU To: ssila at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Subject: SSILA Bulletin #162 THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS *** SSILA BULLETIN *** An Information Service for SSILA Members Editor - Victor Golla (golla at ssila.org) Associate Editor - Scott DeLancey (delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu) -->> --Correspondence should be directed to the Editor-- <<-- __________________________________________________________________________ Number 162: April 8, 2002 __________________________________________________________________________ ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 162.2 NAA REOPENS AT NEW LOCATION AFTER YEAR-LONG CLOSURE >>From Robert Leopold (Leopold at NMNH.SI.EDU) 3 Apr 2002: The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives reopened on March 12 at a new location in the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, after being closed to the public for more than a year. Researchers who visited the NAA at its former location at the National Museum of Natural History know that the move was long overdue. Our former reading room was cramped and noisy. Collections storage was outdated and security was virtually absent. Our new location in suburban Maryland, by contrast, is a state-of-the-art research, conservation, and collections storage facility. The Museum Support Center sits on 6 acres of wooded federal land adjacent to the Museum of the American Indian's Cultural Resource Center. MSC contains more than 500,000 square feet of storage and office space, which is shared by the National Museum of Natural History and other Smithsonian museums, as well as the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education (our new upstairs neighbor). The Department of Anthropology takes up the lion's share of collections storage at MSC. In fact, the archives are the last of the department's collections to be relocated to the suburban location. Its ethnology, archaeology and physical anthropology collections began their move to MSC in 1983, and today nearly a third of the department's staff of 91 work in Maryland. The move to MSC has also provided the perfect opportunity -- and the necessary funding -- to perform preservation rehousing for much of the collection. During the past year, archives staff and scores of volunteers rehoused and stabilized hundreds of thousands of photographs and placed the majority of our manuscript collection (totaling more than 7,800 linear feet) into new acid-free folders and boxes, in some cases replacing storage containers that arrived with collections in the 19th century. (The NAA began life as the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnology, founded in 1879, although many of its collections were produced even earlier.) At MSC, visiting researchers will now be able to study associated archival and artifact collections within easy reach of each other, rather than having to go back and forth between Washington and Maryland. In fact, the NAA's new reading room was designed from the ground up with researcher needs in mind, including desktop Internet connections that allow visiting researchers to check their e-mail. Visiting the archives at its new location, while somewhat less convenient than before, is fairly easy, and we think the benefits of our new location far outweigh the inconvenience. A shuttle bus stops at the National Museum of Natural History (Constitution Avenue side) at five minutes after the hour and arrives at the Museum Support Center 30 minutes later. The shuttle is available weekdays between 8:05 am and 5:05 pm. Public Transportation is also available via Metrorail; the MSC is a 10-15 minute walk from the Suitland Metro station. Free on-site parking is also available. Annually, more than 600 people visited the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives when they were last open, and more than a thousand others visit the NAA/HSFA Web site each day. To make an appointment to visit the NAA, call 301/238-2873 or e-mail . Directions for reaching the archives are available on the NAA web site: . --Robert Leopold Archives & Collections Information Manager Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution (leopold at nmnh.si.edu) ... From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 9 14:02:23 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:02:23 -0600 Subject: Ioway Nation site finally has a new home (fwd) Message-ID: I thought this would interest other Siouanists. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:12:10 -0700 From: Juli Kearns To: john.koontz at colorado.edu Subject: Ioway Nation site finally has a new home John, Just writing to let you know I finally dug up what looks like a permanent home for the Ioway Nation site. I contacted NativeWeb and they consented to host it, so it is now up there. The URL is: http://ioway.nativeweb.com The Jimm GoodTracks texts in Ioway are here: http://ioway.nativeweb.org/language/textsinioway.htm Hope you're doing well. Juli From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Tue Apr 9 15:38:17 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:38:17 +0100 Subject: Regina Pustet Message-ID: Dear Siouanist Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried her old one, but my message was sent back. Bruce Dr. Bruce Ingham Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies SOAS From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 9 17:06:18 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:06:18 -0600 Subject: Regina Pustet In-Reply-To: <3CB318F9.14916.20EE4EE@localhost> Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote: > Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried > her old one, but my message was sent back. The U of Colorado one is now defunct. I've sent Bruce two others that should still be good. JEK From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Tue Apr 9 17:19:13 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:19:13 +0100 Subject: Regina Pustet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks all for the info on Regina bruce On 9 Apr 2002, at 11:06, Koontz John E wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote: > > Does anyone have an address or e-mail for Regina Pustet. I tried > > her old one, but my message was sent back. > > The U of Colorado one is now defunct. I've sent Bruce two others that > should still be good. > > JEK > Dr. Bruce Ingham Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies SOAS From jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu Fri Apr 26 19:46:52 2002 From: jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu (John Boyle) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:46:52 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <000a01c1d2c2$3bbfd2c0$929ff0c7@rcarter> Message-ID: Hi All, Have people thought about where they are going to be staying? It is seems to work out well if we are in the same place. See you there, John Boyle >SCALC 2002 >Announcement and Call For Papers > >The 2002 meeting of the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will >be held at Black Hills State University, in Spearfish, South Dakota, >on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. Those wishing to present >papers should submit a title and brief abstract to the convener, >Dick Carter, by May 25. (This would be best accomplished by sending >the abstract as an e-mail attachment >to RichardCarter at bhsu.edu.) This >year we will have a "parasession" on Friday morning devoted to >papers that test contemporary ideas in linguistic theory against >data from Siouan or Caddoan languages -- although papers which >incorporate additional data from other language families will also >be welcome. Other sessions will welcome papers on any topic >concerning Siouan or Caddoan languages. > >Rooms for conference participants have been reserved at Pangborn >Hall, a university dormitory. Those planning to attend the >conference and reside in the dormitory should inform the convener by >e-mail. Our rooms will be on the first floor. Room costs will be >$10.80 per night for double occupancy, $21.60 per night for single >occupancy, with an additional 8% in tax. Persons residing on campus >are also charged a facilities use fee of $7.50, plus 6% tax. There >will also be a nominal registration fee for all participants, to >cover the cost of coffee-break refreshments. Those who find >dormitory living too Spartan may make their own arrangements at one >of the many motels. The following would be good choices: > > Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) > Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) > Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) > Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) > >Spearfish is located at the northern end of the beautiful Black >Hills, and weather at the end of May is ordinarily delightful. For >those planning to drive, Spearfish is located on Interstate Hwy. 90 >about 45 miles north of Rapid City, South Dakota. Those traveling >by air will fly to Rapid City Regional Airport, at which point it >would be easiest to rent a car for the (roughly) 60 mile trip to >Spearfish. There is much to see in the area: the drive through >Spearfish Canyon, a federally designated "Scenic Byway", is >especially fine in late spring. For those interested, casino >gambling is available in the historic town of Deadwood, 17 miles >away. (Supply your own money. And yes, Kevin Costner does give you >better odds than the state and national lotteries.) > >For those staying on campus: dormitory staff will be available for >check-in anytime after noon on Thursday, May 30, and will help with >checkout from 10 AM - 12 Noon on Sunday, June 2. (Those wishing to >leave on Saturday night may do so, of course.) Those needing >additional information or assistance should contact Dick Carter at >the above e-mail address. He can also be reached by phone at >605-642-6540. > >See you all in beautiful Spearfish!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cqcqcq at pgtv.net Fri Apr 26 21:44:39 2002 From: cqcqcq at pgtv.net (Carolyn Quintero) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:44:39 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 Message-ID: Re: SCALC 2002Good idea, John, to try to stay at the same place. Does anyone know room rates at the different hotels? I think I'll rent a car in Rapid City. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: John Boyle To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: SCALC 2002 Hi All, Have people thought about where they are going to be staying? It is seems to work out well if we are in the same place. See you there, John Boyle SCALC 2002 Announcement and Call For Papers The 2002 meeting of the Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will be held at Black Hills State University, in Spearfish, South Dakota, on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. Those wishing to present papers should submit a title and brief abstract to the convener, Dick Carter, by May 25. (This would be best accomplished by sending the abstract as an e-mail attachment to RichardCarter at bhsu.edu.) This year we will have a "parasession" on Friday morning devoted to papers that test contemporary ideas in linguistic theory against data from Siouan or Caddoan languages -- although papers which incorporate additional data from other language families will also be welcome. Other sessions will welcome papers on any topic concerning Siouan or Caddoan languages. Rooms for conference participants have been reserved at Pangborn Hall, a university dormitory. Those planning to attend the conference and reside in the dormitory should inform the convener by e-mail. Our rooms will be on the first floor. Room costs will be $10.80 per night for double occupancy, $21.60 per night for single occupancy, with an additional 8% in tax. Persons residing on campus are also charged a facilities use fee of $7.50, plus 6% tax. There will also be a nominal registration fee for all participants, to cover the cost of coffee-break refreshments. Those who find dormitory living too Spartan may make their own arrangements at one of the many motels. The following would be good choices: Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Spearfish is located at the northern end of the beautiful Black Hills, and weather at the end of May is ordinarily delightful. For those planning to drive, Spearfish is located on Interstate Hwy. 90 about 45 miles north of Rapid City, South Dakota. Those traveling by air will fly to Rapid City Regional Airport, at which point it would be easiest to rent a car for the (roughly) 60 mile trip to Spearfish. There is much to see in the area: the drive through Spearfish Canyon, a federally designated "Scenic Byway", is especially fine in late spring. For those interested, casino gambling is available in the historic town of Deadwood, 17 miles away. (Supply your own money. And yes, Kevin Costner does give you better odds than the state and national lotteries.) For those staying on campus: dormitory staff will be available for check-in anytime after noon on Thursday, May 30, and will help with checkout from 10 AM - 12 Noon on Sunday, June 2. (Those wishing to leave on Saturday night may do so, of course.) Those needing additional information or assistance should contact Dick Carter at the above e-mail address. He can also be reached by phone at 605-642-6540. See you all in beautiful Spearfish!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu Sat Apr 27 14:53:00 2002 From: jpboyle at midway.uchicago.edu (John Boyle) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:53:00 -0500 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <000a01c1d2c2$3bbfd2c0$929ff0c7@rcarter> Message-ID: Hi All, Just a little research on prices and such. Does anyone have any preferences? John Boyle > > > Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Single $ 55.00 Double $ 60.00 Pool yes Restaurant no Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------------------------------------- > Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Single $ 59.00 or $53.00 (with AAA discount) Double $ 69.00 or $63.00 (with AAA discount) Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant - next door Hours 24 hours Bar no Hours -- ------------------------------------------- > Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.99 Double $ 69.99 Pool yes (the largest in Spearfish!) + hot tub Restaurant yes Hours 6:00 PM - 2:00 PM/ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bar yes Hours 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM > Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.00 Double $ 79.00 Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant no (across street there is an Applebee's) Hours -- Bar no Hours -- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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John Boyle Best Western Downtown 605-642-4676 (about 1/4 mile away) Single $ 55.00 Double $ 60.00 Pool yes Restaurant no Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------------------------------------- Kelly Inn 605-642-7795 (about a mile away) Single $ 59.00 or $53.00 (with AAA discount) Double $ 69.00 or $63.00 (with AAA discount) Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant - next door Hours 24 hours Bar no Hours -- ------------------------------------------- Holiday Inn 800-999-3541 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.99 Double $ 69.99 Pool yes (the largest in Spearfish!) + hot tub Restaurant yes Hours 6:00 PM - 2:00 PM/ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bar yes Hours 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM Comfort Inn 605-642-2337 (not easily walkable) Single $ 69.00 Double $ 79.00 Pool yes + hot tub Restaurant no (across street there is an Applebee's) Hours -- Bar no Hours -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Mon Apr 29 02:11:51 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:11:51 -0600 Subject: Reviused Address for Dryer's OP Concordances Message-ID: Siouanists interested in consulting the concordances Matthew Dryver made for Ardis Eschenberg from the Siouan Archives Dorsey texts should now see: http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/omaha.conc.sit .../omaha.conc.rev.sit .../omaha.conc.engl.sit His description: >Concordances of Dorsey's Omaha Texts > >These concordances are meant to be looked at on one's computer screen. >They are far too long to print out. (If you tried, they would be over >20,000 pages.) > >There are three concordances, the main one (Omaha, alphabetical), the >reverse Omaha one, and the English-based one. Each concordance contains >20 or more documents, one for each letter. Each concordance also contains >an additional document with the suffix "list" (before the .rtf suffix) >which is a list of all the words in the order they occur in that >concordance and their frequency in the Dorsey texts. > >They are all RTF documents. Except for the list documents, they must be >opened from within Microsoft Word on a Mac. I don't know if this is also >necessary in Windows. The choice of nonstandard characters is based on >what seems to work in Windows (the accent mark does not come out right on >a Mac). A tilde using its own space is used for the nasalization symbol. > >There are three StuffIt documents, one for each of the three concourdance. >Each will expland into a folder containing the 20 or more documents making >up that concordance. Each of the three StuffIt documents is about 4MB. >When unstuffed, these three concordances require a total of about 80MB of >hard disk space. > >The three concordances are at the following URL's: Where to get StuffIt, a program that can handle sit archives: > You can get a StuffIt unstuffer for dealing with the concordance SIT > archives at http://www.stuffit.com/expander/index.html. Do a custom > install and only install the expander. Don't let it handle files with > other extensions unless you want to use it instead of whatever > unzippers, etc., you already use. From bi1 at soas.ac.uk Mon Apr 29 10:40:14 2002 From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk (bi1 at soas.ac.uk) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:40:14 +0100 Subject: SCALC 2002 In-Reply-To: <001001c1ed6b$978a6e80$0e15460a@direcpc.com> Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 7035 bytes Desc: not available URL: From John.Koontz at colorado.edu Tue Apr 30 13:51:47 2002 From: John.Koontz at colorado.edu (Koontz John E) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:51:47 -0600 Subject: Reviused Address for Dryer's OP Concordances In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Koontz John E wrote: > Siouanists interested in consulting the concordances Matthew Dryver made > for Ardis Eschenberg ... Correction: it's Dryer. From strechter at csuchico.edu Tue Apr 30 21:42:00 2002 From: strechter at csuchico.edu (Trechter, Sara) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:42:00 -0700 Subject: Revised Address for Dryer's OP Concordances Message-ID: Hi, these are a great resource. I just tried downloading the concordances, and was sent to this address: http://wings.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/omaha.conc.sit sara