OP: coming and going

[Cumberland, Linda]

Quoting Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>:

>
> Has anyone gone into the semantics of Siouan motion verbs in detail?
>

I have, for Assiniboine, at least. Y'all saw a preliminary analysis at 
Spearfish, and I've devoted a full chapter to a much more detailed 
analysis in my Assiniboine grammar. My analysis involves a deictic 
center and two separate bases (A and B), plus something I've dubbed the 
"apogee" (the point at which one switches from non-return to return 
verbs). It all boils down into a neat little diagram - the picture that 
takes 1000 words (or more!) to explain.

I understood that I should be working this up for the comparative 
Siouan grammar workshop next month. I've been slotting data from the 
other Siouan languages into my diagram -- and, assuming I'm 
interpreting the data correctly, finding that the structure works with 
reasonable consistency across the entire language family. It would be 
difficult to put the whole thing across in an email message, so I was 
planning to give a detailed explanation at the workshop.

Linda