Dakota 'orphan'

[Rankin, Robert L]

Sorry, Rory, I just got sloppy.  I tire easily of trying to wrangle those nasal vowel symbols into my emails, so I moved the nasality to the consonants.  *ni should be *riN, no doubt about it.  I'll try not to do that.  I guess I need to get that SIL keyboard program to make things easier.

Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU [owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU] on behalf of Rory M Larson [rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:35 AM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: RE: Dakota 'orphan'

Bob wrote:
> *ni is one of three 'negative' morphemes commonly found in Siouan languages.

I had it in mind that there was no *[n] or *[m] in proto-Siouan, and that the nasal consonants in modern Siouan languages are really just nasalized versions of *[r] and *[w] (or *[R] and *[W]).  Am I mis-remembering, or should the negative morpheme here be reconstructed as *riN for Siouan in general?

Great discussion, by the way.  Thanks to all participants!

Rory