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<DIV>In a message dated 5/12/2006 10:02:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>The Crow theme vowel-citation forms do have a very "automatic" feel to<BR>them, and since, as Randy mentioned, they are missing in Hidatsa, it is<BR>unclear, within Crow-Hidatsa, whether Crow or Hidatsa innovates. But, not<BR>only are the theme vowel forms before suffixes suggestive within Crow, but<BR>the suffixes in question seem to be cognate with suffixes in Mississippi<BR>Valley Siouan that have the same behavior. So, I think we can assume that<BR>Hidatsa is the innovator, not Crow. This whole area, however, is one that<BR>involves either a small group of irregular relicts (as in Dakotan and in<BR>some Omaha-Ponca cases) or a rather generalized, automatic situation (as<BR>in Crow or Omaha-Ponca), so no doubt there is some work to be done with<BR>it.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">This is interesting. John, what are the Mississippi Valley suffixes that behave the same as the Crow suffixes that follow the citation form?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Randy</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>