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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My thanks to those who have responded with comment and examples, both on- and off-list. It looks as though there are no constraints on biclausal sentences with coreferential subjects and one active and one stative verb. Disambiguation of such sentences with 3sg. subjects and 3sg. objects, however, presents interesting problems. Shannon's Nakoda speakers require the same subject for both verbs -- the object of the first cannot be the subject of the second without an overt noun apparently. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Other dialects may be different: Constantine Chmielnicki reminds me that Van Valin and Richard Lungstrum have separately posited that the use of "conjunctions" or "switch reference" markers, /cha/ and /na/ may be used by Lakota speakers to eliminate confusion. I haven't yet had a chance to look at these sources.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I suspect that this may well be true quite generally with the languages that have S/R morphology. These would presumably include Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan and Biloxi. I have Randy's dissertation and MA thesis and will be checking further.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I suspect that the same goal would be accomplished using proximate/obviative morphology in Dhegiha dialects. This too is hypothetical at the moment, since a preliminary search of Dorsey's 1890 text collection hasn't yet revealed any applicable instances. No doubt there are some, but my search technique so far is somewhat primitive. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The disambiguation problem doesn't seem usually to bear on the active/stative question though. It seems that some more investigation across Siouan would be useful on this/these topics though.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any further data or comments would be most welcome.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bob</FONT>
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