<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Aloha Johannes,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Many thanks for your suggestions about
future SACC agendas.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have offered to host the 2009 gathering
here in Lincoln, Nebraska (the center of it all...or the most distant from
anywhere else sort of place).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The Dhegihanists have met here back
in 2000 or so.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I will be polling folks at Joplin about
their interests regarding the agenda for 2009.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If there is sufficient interest in organizing
a session or three on the Comparative Siouan Grammar, Lincoln would be
a good time to formalize it and push it forward a bit.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There may be interest in organizing
a session geared towards language instructors from on- and off-rez institutions.
I would suspect that the Tribal Colleges in NE, SD, and OK might find this
useful. Omaha Nation Public School (K-12), Walthill Public School, and
Winnebago Public School could find some value in this as well.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Let's put on our thinking caps as we
head to Joplin.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">iNcHoNxti woNgithe widoNbe ttamiNkHe.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Uthixide</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland<br>
Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>
and Native American Studies<br>
University of Nebraska<br>
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368<br>
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http://omahalanguage.unl.edu<br>
Phone 402-472-3455<br>
FAX: 402-472-9642<br>
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"Ttenixa uxpathe egoN" a biama, winisi akHa.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Dear Siouanists,<br>
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I regret very much that I won't be able to attend this year's SCLC in Joplin,MO
in particular because <br>
the program seems to be so interesting. Since I won't be personally there,
I would like to make <br>
some suggestions from the other end of the world for the future conferences,
which may be <br>
discussed during the conference in Joplin.<br>
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One of the exciting projects we started in Billings 2006 was the Comparative
Siouan Grammar. <br>
Papers dealing with various aspects of Siouan grammar in a typological
and historical comparative <br>
perspective were presented there. We also compiled a list with additional
topics filling all in all at <br>
least two volumes. Unfortunately, this project came to a halt afterwards
and I would like to give it a <br>
new push. So, my suggestion would be to plan on a follow up workshop on
Siouan Comparative <br>
Grammar for the next year's conference, if this goal is still considered
worthy among the participants <br>
to invest time and research. Could you discuss this question during the
coming days? <br>
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For me personally, this implies that I will revise and expand my paper
on applicatives in Siouan. In <br>
addition, I volunteered for the causative constructions (if I recall that
correctly), so I will start to work <br>
on a draft version on this topic that will be presented at the conference
next year.<br>
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Another important point for me is: I will be able to come next only, if
I can get funding for an <br>
overseas trip. This is not too difficult to obtain in particular for such
a fascinating project, but I need <br>
the conference details some months in advance in order to be able to apply
for money. Therefore, I <br>
would like to ask you to fix a date and location for the next and if possible
for the conference in two <br>
years so that people from abroad have a chance to get the necessary funding.
John Boyle <br>
mentioned to me that he is going to organize a conference in Chicago in
2010?<br>
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Anyway, I think the meeting in Joplin could provide a good opportunity
to talk about the state of the <br>
art with regard to the comparative Siouan Grammar project and to plan on
the next steps. <br>
Personally, I would like to participate in the planning, the organization,
and the research as much as <br>
I can so that this project will come to a succesful end.<br>
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So, I wish all of you a wonderful and interesting meeting in Joplin,<br>
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Best,<br>
Johannes<br>
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Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht<br>
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft<br>
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