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<DIV>Many of you already have a copy of William Whitman's 1947 Descriptive Grammar of Ioway-Oto from IJAL (Sans the last page of the manuscript. I can get that out later, but it refers primarily to the causative, not to wa-, so it won't matter for now. For any of you (especially the Windy City folks :) complaining about a lack of material on Chiwere subgroup for your comparative projects (on, things like, Oh,I don't know, maybe wa- :). It's brief and densely packed, but I haven't found anything I would consider "wrong" in it yet. Maybe I just don't know enough to judge. But it's better than nothing, and surely the "directional" wa- does deserve to be cast in amongst the other worms in the proverbial can... </DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1262839.pdf">http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1262839.pdf</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>The conference was truly good, in all ways. Hope everyone is still inspired to keep the momentum going. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes,</DIV>
<DIV>Jill</DIV>
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<DIV>Jill Greer</DIV>
<DIV>Assistant Professor</DIV>
<DIV>Social Science Department</DIV>
<DIV>MSSU</DIV>
<DIV>Joplin, MO 64801</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:greer-j@mssu.edu">greer-j@mssu.edu</A></DIV>
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