obviation in Siouan languages

[Marino]

The papers are:

Muehlbauer, Jeffrey  "Opportunistic verbal correlates to obviation in 
Plains Cree: the 'obviative' suffix -yi-"
Piriyawiboon, Nattaya  "Reconsidering the obviative"

Muehlbauer is at UBritish Columbia (jefmuehl at interchange.ubc.ca) , and 
Piriyawiboon (n.piriyawiboon at utoronto.ca) is at U Toronto.  Both papers 
were presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Meeting, 2007, in 
Saskatoon.   Muehlbauer's paper is, as the title suggests, focused on 
Plains Cree.  He uses corpus data from Bloomfield's "Sacred Stories" and 
Ahenakew/Wolfart published texts as well as elicitation data from 6 
speakers, including their metalinguistic judgements.  Piriyawiboon's paper 
is focused on Nishnaabemwin of S Ontario.

Mary


At 12:53 PM 5/31/2007, you wrote:
>As Rory points out, Dhegiha languages have something very similar 
>distinguishing primary from non-primary actors.  Ardis's dissertation was 
>at least partly on this distinction in Omaha.
>
>I have toyed with the idea of trying to redefine the "switch-reference" 
>distinction in those Siouan languages that have it as an obviation 
>distinction.  Such redefinition clearly works in Muskogean, where it is 
>the only way to tie "S-R" and argument marking particles together without 
>a hopelessly complex appeal to homophony, but I haven't really gotten down 
>to the business of trying to demonstrate it in Siouan.  Clearly the more 
>inclusive concept of "referent tracking" operates in Siouan grammars, 
>though it differs from language to language.  If I had to guess, I'd say 
>it is historically primary in Algonquian but secondary in Siouan.
>
>What were the papers you're referring to on Algonquian?
>
>Bob
>
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>From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Marino
>Sent: Thu 5/31/2007 12:20 AM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: obviation in Siouan languages
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>
>There were two excellent papers on obviation in Cree at the CLA
>meetings.  One of the presenters asked me if there is obviation in any of
>the Siouan languages.  I have a vague memory that this has come up before,
>but I can't find time to troll through the archives.  Any suggestions?
>
>Best
>Mary Marino
>
>
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