Assiniboine and Stoney.

Marino mary.marino at usask.ca
Wed Feb 16 16:39:47 UTC 2005


Thanks, Doug. I have seen references to this paper, and if  Alan or John,
or someone else, could get it into circulation it would be much appreciated.

Mary


At 10:15 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
>Maybe you people are too new to the field, but Allan Taylor addressed
>this very issue in a paper delivered at the AAA ca. 1980.  It isn't
>published, so perhaps John can get a copy of it from Allan and maybe
>scan it for web "publication."  Allan cites data, not hunches.
>
>Doug
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Grant
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:46 AM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: RE: Assiniboine and Stoney.
>
>What about Stoney items such as the Cree-derived word meaning 'money'?
>
>Anthony
>
> >>> cstelfer at ucalgary.ca 15/02/2005 22:58:34 >>>
> > -And a dictionary or two wouldn't go amiss either.  I'm especially
> > interested in the impact that Cree has had on Stoney.
> >
> > Anthony
>
>I responded to this comment earlier by saying that I didn't think Cree
>had
>had any impact on Stoney, however, I forgot that the Paul Band
>reserves
>are mixed with both Cree and Stoney people.  Unfortunately to my
>knowledge
>Stoney is not really spoken there anymore, which is not surprising
>considering the linguistic pressures exerted by both English and Cree.
>
>The Northern Stoney data I have is from the Alexis Band, so it has no
>Cree
>influence.  If there was any Cree influence on the Paul Band dialect
>of
>Stoney, I think it would be quite hard to detect it at this point in
>time.
>
>Corey.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >>>> rankin at ku.edu 25/01/2005 16:01:39 >>>
> >> I was talking with John Newman at Edmonton in October
> >> and he felt that the two major Stoney dialect clusters
> >> might be different in this regard.
> >
> >> I guess I should always distinguish between South Stoney (Morley,
> > Eden
> > Valley and Big Horn reserves) and North Stoney (Alexis and Paul
>bands).
> >
> > The South Stoneys have apparently lost the glottalized set of stops
> > and
> > collapsed them with the aspirated series, but the Northern group
>have
> > not.
> >
> > And the South group has those neat pharyngeals. . . .
> >
> > Newman said the two groups migrated to their current locations in
> > southern and central Alberta via very different routes, suggesting
> > some
> > significant time depth between the dialects.  Gee, a coupla good
> > reference grammars would be a good thing!  :-)      Bob
> >
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