Workshop on Comparative Siouan Grammar - Lincoln 2009

[rwd0002 at unt.edu]

Dear Johannes and Siouanists:

Actually, I intended to say that I can commit to writing a paper on 
Noun Incorporation, but I will not be able to present at the Conference 
in June 2009, because I will be working at RCLT, LaTrobe, Australia at 
that time.  Sorry about that.

All the best,

Willem de Reuse Quoting "Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht" 
<johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>:

> Dear Siouanists,
>
> this is just a brief update on the planing of the workshop on 
> "Comparative Siouan Grammar" to be held at
> the SACC conference in Lincoln,NE in June 2009. It is a reminder and 
> at the same time a call for additional
> participants/ volunteers!
>
> Up to now, nine people have confirmed to present a paper on the workshop:
>
> Bob Rankin:
> a) Instrumentals b) suffixes/enclitics
>
> Johannes Helmbrecht:
> Causative constructions
>
> Willem de Reuse:
> Noun incorporation
>
> John Boyle:
> Indefinite absolutive *waa-
>
> Iren Hartmann:
> Modality
>
> David Rood:
> Serial verb constructions
>
> Randy Graczyk:
> Switch reference and clause chaining
>
> Catherine Rudin:
> Coordination (AND, BUT, OR)
>
> Bryan Gordon:
> Topic- and focus-marking strategies in Omaha-Ponca and Jiwere (Bryan 
> could perhaps expand this topic on
> a few other Siouan Languages too)
>
> If there are further volunteers, please let us know soon
>
> I would then kindly ask all Siouanists to share their expertise and 
> data with these people in case that they
> need additional data to conduct the research necessary for their 
> contribution on the workhop.
>
> I would also suggest that we plan to reserve a time slot for the 
> discussion on how to proceed with the CSG
> project. As far as I can see, it will be difficult to find volunteers 
> for all the topics I listed in the last mail some
> weeks ago no matter how interesting they are. So we need to think 
> about a less ambitious goal with regard
> to the planned volumes. The outcome could be that we aim at something 
> like "Topics in Comparative Siouan
> Grammar" or the like. Anyway, we have to address this question and we 
> have to create a realistic
> perspective for the research to be presented on this coming workshop 
> as well as for the papers that were
> already presented in Billings.
>
> All the best (also on behalf of John Boyle)
> Johannes