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<DIV>In Crow and, from what I know, in other Siouan languages, we tend to see recurrent patterns--though not rhyme--at the beginning of sentences, with the repetion of sentence connectives like Crow dee'laa 'and then', etc. It is also common in Crow discourse to repeat the final verb of a sentence or stretch of discourse as the first verb of the next section:</DIV>
<DIV>'......he went'. 'He went and.....'</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with John that the morphological and syntactic structure of Siouan languages makes rhyming virtually impossible.</DIV>
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<DIV>Randy</DIV></BODY></HTML>