<DIV><EM>>Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>>This arrived in my absence. Some of you may have received it also.<BR><BR>>Bob<BR><BR></EM>I also got this message, and it looks like I'll be doing the Lakota part unless somebody else on the list intervenes -- I'm actually encouraging you guys to intervene because at the moment, my deadlines are killing me and this is not going to change until the end of this year.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>"Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>This arrived in my absence. Some of you may have received it also.<BR><BR>Bob<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: idiatov@uia.ua.ac.be [mailto:idiatov@uia.ua.ac.be] On Behalf Of<BR>idiatov<BR>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:29 AM<BR>To: Rankin, Robert L<BR>Subject: Siouan languages<BR><BR><BR>Dear Robert (if I may),<BR><BR>I am currently doing a typological study on the use of the interrogative<BR>pro-nouns meaning 'who?' and 'what?'. To my disappointment, information<BR>on the use of 'who?' and 'what?' is difficult to find in grammars and<BR>dictionaries. Therefore, I made up a small questionnaire of some 20<BR>questions. May I ask you to answer the questions and translate the<BR>English sentences in the Siouan languages you are most familiar with?<BR>Even if you can do this only for a part of the questions, it will be of<BR>great use to me!
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comments you may have, are also welcome. No need to<BR>say that I will gratefully acknowledge your help when publishing or<BR>presenting the results. You may find the questionnaire attached as an a<BR>MS Word file.<BR><BR>Kind regards,<BR><BR>Dmitry Idiatov<BR><BR>Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology<BR>University of Antwerp (Belgium)<BR><BR>PS: I presented some of the results of my research at the 6th biennial<BR>meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology in Padang (Indonesia)<BR>this year. Please find the handout of my talk as an attachment. I left<BR>the maps out because they made the pdf-file to big.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p>
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