Positionals

[shokooh Ingham]

Thanks Bob
Bruce
--- "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:

> You might want to start with the bibliography at the
> end of:
>  
> 
>  The History and Development of Siouan Positionals. 
> In Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung,
> 57:202-227 (2004).
> 
>  
> 
> I used a lot of synchronic grammars and text
> collections as sources.  I also short-changed Crow
> and Hidatsa for lack of information at the time. 
> John and Randy are happily remedying this as we
> speak.
> 
>  
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of
> shokooh Ingham
> Sent: Thu 11/2/2006 4:14 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Positionals
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Siouanists,
> Caroline Quintero and myself are trying to put
> something together on positionals in Siouan.  We
> have
> information on Osage, Mandan, Lakota and Omaha, but
> are lacking anything on Crow or Winnebago and wonder
> whether anyone can help.  Obviously  this enquiry is
> aimed mainly at Randy and Johannes, but if anyone
> can
> help from those or other languages, we would be
> grateful.  The positional so called are elements
> which
> refer to the attitude, standing, sitting, lying or
> physical shape of items, rather in the way that
> Lakota
> uses yanka 'sit', han 'stand', hpaya 'lie' and
> hiyeya
> 'be scattered' to refer to the existence of items
> which are respectively compact, tall, horizontally
> arranged and numerous.  In Mandan I notice that this
> sort of distinction is shown in demonstratives and
> even in verbs by suffix.  By  comparison I know that
> Yurok has a distinction of different forms of
> numerals
> for different noun classes of a similar type.  So
> this
> type of distinction can be shown in various word
> classes.   We would be grateful for any
> contributions
> 
> Bruce
> 
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