<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>I'm glad to be back on the list, but sorry I can't attend this year. However i will definitely come next year to Lincoln. Best of luck to you all this year in Joplin<br>Bruce<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 17/6/08, Catherine Rudin <i><carudin1@wsc.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Catherine Rudin <carudin1@wsc.edu><br>Subject: RE: Comparative Siouan Grammar project<br>To: siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU<br>Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 7:38 PM<br><br><pre>I agree with Bob; it all sounds good. Language instructors' session is a<br>good idea, and we should DEFINITELY get the momentum back for the comparative<br>Siouan grammar project. These two ideas don't conflict - we can do both<br>and still have time for some regular papers at the 2009 meeting. <br><br>I
think we should devote a whole day to comparative grammar, and we should get<br>organized well in advance. I wasn't able to get to Billings, and I've<br>forgotten which topic I said I would look at (am I the only sieve-brain?) but I<br>do think this is important!!! If Johannes is willing to be the organizer that<br>would be great. Is there someone who will be in Joplin who could bring the<br>list of topics/chapters that was compiled before? (And/or could someone<br>circulate it electronically?) I suspect I'm not the only one who could use<br>a reminder.<br><br>I believe that Mark has not only offered, but we collectively have accepted<br>Lincoln as the 2009 site. The date I have noted is "June 5-7 or<br>12-14". Should we make a decision?<br><br>Let's include a quick "business meeting" in the Joplin schedule,<br>with confirming at least next year's plans as item #1 on the agenda. <br>Tentative 2010 plans could be discussed too - Chicago or
wherever. <br><br>Apologies if any of you get two near-identical messages from me. I tried to<br>reply earlier to Mark's note, but it seems to have gone only to him, not to<br>the list -- at least I hope that's what happened to it! <br><br>Catherine<br><br>>>> "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu> 06/17/08 12:53<br>PM >>><br>This all sounds really great to me. Perhaps Johannes would like to be the<br>organizer of the comparative sessions (which might, in turn, provide an even<br>stronger rationale for his getting travel funds), and Mark could organize the<br>language instructors' sessions. Hopefully we could schedule them so that<br>we could all attend both.<br> <br>Bob<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of Mark J Awakuni-Swetland<br>Sent: Tue 6/17/2008 9:06 AM<br>To: siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU<br>Cc: owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU;
siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU<br>Subject: Re: Comparative Siouan Grammar project<br><br><br><br>Aloha Johannes, <br>Many thanks for your suggestions about future SACC agendas. <br>I have offered to host the 2009 gathering here in Lincoln, Nebraska (the center<br>of it all...or the most distant from anywhere else sort of place). <br><br>The Dhegihanists have met here back in 2000 or so. <br><br>I will be polling folks at Joplin about their interests regarding the agenda<br>for 2009. <br><br>If there is sufficient interest in organizing a session or three on the<br>Comparative Siouan Grammar, Lincoln would be a good time to formalize it and<br>push it forward a bit. <br><br>There may be interest in organizing a session geared towards language<br>instructors from on- and off-rez institutions. I would suspect that the Tribal<br>Colleges in NE, SD, and OK might find this useful. Omaha Nation Public School<br>(K-12), Walthill Public School, and Winnebago Public
School could find some<br>value in this as well. <br><br>Let's put on our thinking caps as we head to Joplin. <br><br>iNcHoNxti woNgithe widoNbe ttamiNkHe. <br>Uthixide <br><br>Mark Awakuni-Swetland<br>Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>and Native American Studies<br>University of Nebraska<br>Lincoln, NE 68588-0368<br><br>http://omahalanguage.unl.edu<br>Phone 402-472-3455<br>FAX: 402-472-9642<br><br>"Ttenixa uxpathe egoN" a biama, winisi akHa. <br><br><br><br>"Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht"<br><johannes.helmbrecht@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de> <br>Sent by: owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU <br><br>06/17/2008 07:50 AM <br>Please respond to<br>siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU<br><br><br>To<br>siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU <br>cc<br>Subject<br>Re: Comparative Siouan Grammar project <br><br> <br><br><br><br><br>Dear Siouanists,<br><br>I regret very much that I won't be able to attend this year's SCLC in<br>Joplin,MO in particular because <br>the program seems
to be so interesting. Since I won't be personally there,<br>I would like to make <br>some suggestions from the other end of the world for the future conferences,<br>which may be <br>discussed during the conference in Joplin.<br><br>One of the exciting projeGrammar. <br>Papers dealing with various aspects of Siouan grammar in a typological and<br>historical comparative <br>perspective were presented there. We also compiled a list with additional<br>topics filling all in all at <br>least two volumes. Unfortunately, this project came to a halt afterwards and I<br>would like to give it a <br>new push. So, my suggestion would be to plan on a follow up workshop on Siouan<br>Comparative <br>Grammar for the next year's conference, if this goal is still considered<br>worthy among the participants <br>to invest time and research. Could you discuss this question during the coming<br>days? <br><br>For me personally, this implies that I will revise and expand my
paper on<br>applicatives in Siouan. In <br>addition, I volunteered for the causative constructions (if I recall that<br>correctly), so I will start to work <br>on a draft version on this topic that will be presented at the conference next<br>year.<br><br>Another important point for me is: I will be able to come next only, if I can<br>get funding for an <br>overseas trip. This is not too difficult to obtain in particular for such a<br>fascinating project, but I need <br>the conference details some months in advance in order to be able to apply for<br>money. Therefore, I <br>would like to ask you to fix a date and location for the next and if possible<br>for the conference in two <br>years so that people from abroad have a chance to get the necessary funding.<br>John Boyle <br>mentioned to me that he is going to organize a conference in Chicago in 2010?<br><br>Anyway, I think the meeting in Joplin could provide a good opportunity to talk<br>about the
state of the <br>art with regard to the comparative Siouan Grammar project and to plan on the<br>next steps. <br>Personally, I would like to participate in the planning, the organization, and<br>the research as much as <br>I can so that this project will come to a succesful end.<br><br>So, I wish all of you a wonderful and interesting meeting in Joplin,<br><br>Best,<br>Johannes<br><br><br>--<br><br>Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht<br>Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft<br>Universität Regensburg<br>Philosophische Fakultät IV <br>Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft<br>Universitätsstr. 31<br>93053 Regensburg<br>Deutschland<br><br>Tel: ++49(0)941 943-3388<br> ++49(0)941 943-3387 (Sekretariat)<br>Fax: ++49(0)941 943-2429<br>E-Mail: johannes.helmbrecht@sprachlit.uni-regenburg.de<br>Webseite: http://www-avs.uni-regensburg.de/index.htm</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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