Most Frequently Used Verbs in OP

[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Tom Leonard wrote:
> Can anyone advise a list of the most frequently used verbs in
> Omaha-Ponca? Anyone ever looked into this?  I need this for a teaching
> grammar that is in progress.  Does any one have a list, perhaps from a
> teaching syllabus? If not, can any one recommend a reference citation or
> two?

For a start I must have somewhere a frequency count of the words in
Dorsey 1890 & 1891, and, if not, it's easy to make one.  Of course, that's
for inflected forms, which is quite a different thing.  You want most
frequent stems, without regard to the inflection.  In addition, usage in
Dorsey's selection of texts might be quite different from conversational
usage, or usage in a different set of texts.  Perhaps usage in the letters
would be more like usage in conversation.

Is such a list available for any Siouan language?  Up to a point it might
be possible to substitute OP stems and have what you want.