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The papers are: <br><br>
Muehlbauer, Jeffrey "Opportunistic verbal correlates to
obviation in Plains Cree: the 'obviative' suffix <i>-yi-</i>"
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Piriyawiboon, Nattaya "Reconsidering the
obviative"<br><br>
Muehlbauer is at UBritish Columbia (jefmuehl@interchange.ubc.ca) , and
Piriyawiboon (n.piriyawiboon@utoronto.ca) is at U Toronto. Both
papers were presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association Meeting,
2007, in Saskatoon. Muehlbauer's paper is, as the title
suggests, focused on Plains Cree. He uses corpus data from
Bloomfield's "Sacred Stories" and Ahenakew/Wolfart published
texts as well as elicitation data from 6 speakers, including their
metalinguistic judgements. Piriyawiboon's paper is focused on
Nishnaabemwin of S Ontario.<br><br>
Mary<br><br>
<br>
At 12:53 PM 5/31/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">As Rory points out, Dhegiha
languages have something very similar distinguishing primary from
non-primary actors. Ardis's dissertation was at least partly on
this distinction in Omaha. <br>
<br>
I have toyed with the idea of trying to redefine the
"switch-reference" distinction in those Siouan languages that
have it as an obviation distinction. Such redefinition clearly
works in Muskogean, where it is the only way to tie "S-R" and
argument marking particles together without a hopelessly complex appeal
to homophony, but I haven't really gotten down to the business of trying
to demonstrate it in Siouan. Clearly the more inclusive concept of
"referent tracking" operates in Siouan grammars, though it
differs from language to language. If I had to guess, I'd say it is
historically primary in Algonquian but secondary in Siouan.<br>
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What were the papers you're referring to on Algonquian?<br>
<br>
Bob<br><br>
________________________________<br><br>
From: owner-siouan@lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Marino<br>
Sent: Thu 5/31/2007 12:20 AM<br>
To: siouan@lists.colorado.edu<br>
Subject: obviation in Siouan languages<br><br>
<br><br>
There were two excellent papers on obviation in Cree at the CLA<br>
meetings. One of the presenters asked me if there is obviation in
any of<br>
the Siouan languages. I have a vague memory that this has come up
before,<br>
but I can't find time to troll through the archives. Any
suggestions?<br><br>
Best<br>
Mary Marino<br><br>
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