Sorry it has taken me so long to respond. I'll be happy to do the section on switch reference and clause-chaining.<br>
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From: Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht <johannes.helmbrecht@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de><br>
To: siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU; jpboyle@uchicago.edu<br>
Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 4:35 am<br>
Subject: Re: Comparative Siouan Grammar workshop<br>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">as was decided in Joplin, the workshop on Comparative Siouan Grammar (CSG) will take place on June, 11- 12 (i.e. Thursday/ Friday), 2009 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Mark takes care of the local organization at Lincoln, John Bolye offered to help me to organize this workshop which will then be part of the annual Siouan and Caddoan linguistics conference. </SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">John and I agree on the question that we have to start with20the preparation of this workshop as early as possible in order to give the potential contributors a chance to do research for their respective papers. The particularity of the contributions of this workshop is that the papers will not deal with a certain grammatical category or construction in just one Siouan Language (the one we have some expertise in) but in as many SLs as possible. So, this implies that all available published and unpublished sources (inlcuding the knowledge and field notes of our fellow Siouanists) have to be consulted to get a comparative view of the formal and functional diversity of the respective grammatical phenomenon in the SLs (comprising also a historical reconstruction if that is possible). </SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So, the first step for the next six weeks would be to arrive at an almost final program for the workshop (by the end of Octovber) AND a plan for the contents and structure of the volumes which will emerge from this research. Both items have to go hand in hand.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Starting from the list of topics and volunteers which we put together during the Billings meeting in June 2006, (John=2
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<div align=left><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Comparative Siouan Grammar (CSG)</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">e) and finally, who of the volunteers would like to present his or her research on the workshop next June? (this question is also addressed to people who gave a presentation already on the workshop in Billings - it might be the case that the original paper can be broadened and enriched with additional data from other SLs now)</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Universität Regensburg</SPAN></FONT></div>
<div align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Philosophische Fakultät IV </SPAN></FONT></div>
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