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</FONT></SPAN>Are these U of Colorado Siouan archives something I can
access online? Also going to track down the IJAL article. So, Bob,
you mentioned you did a couple of papers on Biloxi-Ofo? Is this something
you could email copies of, or forward via snail mail? <BR><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=498262816-11102004><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>[RLR:
] Basically, I estabilished that Biloxi had two stop series for
certain, probably aspirated and unaspirated, but we don't know the exact
phonetic correlates. Everyone else had "normalized" it to a single series
and disregarded Dorsey's diacritics. I may have a printout of that
somewhere. At this year's siouan conference I also did a talk on what
happened to the active/stative split in OVS. You'll need to talk with
David Rood about the computer files.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm also wondering if, since Biloxi is the farthest afield of the Siouan
languages, it is also the most divergent? I know in the case of Cherokee
it became the most divergent of the Iroquois family because of its fairly early
shift farther south. Wonder if the same is true of Biloxi in the Siouan
family. <BR><SPAN class=498262816-11102004><FONT color=#0000ff
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<DIV><SPAN class=498262816-11102004><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>[RLR:
] I'm not sure what "most divergent" would mean. Catawba is
certainly the most divergent, but it's so different we don't consider it Siouan
per-se (although there's no reason why you couldn't). Blair can fill you
in on what's available there. Within Siouan proper I don't know that any
of the three attested OVS languages is "more divergent" than the rest. The
whole subgroup is different from the other major subgroups, but the inventory of
grammatical categories in OVS is essentially the same familiar one as MVS.
Personally, I consider Crow the most different from what I have experience with,
but that's just me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=498262816-11102004><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Bob</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>