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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi Jill - I got the sketch and will give it a reading (read first part and mostly just had copyediting suggestions - e.g. parallelism in the headings, etc.). I'm not sure I remember
enough Chiwere at this point to be very useful as an informed reviewer, so consider any of my comments more the outsider perspective. Keep cool. Pax, Louanna<br>
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<div class="PlainText">N. Louanna Furbee<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:17 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: sketch<br>
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Hi Jill,<br>
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Thanks for sending that along.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:rgb(31,73,125)">> It truly is a draft still. The thing that will be clear from the get go is that I’m trying make it for the native community, not for the professionals.
So it may be a little annoying to have my attempts to teach a few terms, and there may be better ways to explain things than I have done so far. And my hope of having an annotated text with the digital file to accompany it frame by frame hasn’t been realized
yet, so the appendix is empty. The papers I gave at WhiteCloud and Lincoln are the texts referenced there.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">You might want to look at Allan Taylor and David Rood's sketch of Lakota in the Handbook, although for the modern reader it would probably have to be diluted a bit
more. Teaching college students beginning Linguistics I about gave up on their knowing any traditional language terminology, even for English. It's a different world out there from what it was when I grew up in south Georgia back in the 50s.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:rgb(31,73,125)">> Also, I have not put in the consonant clusters (it will be a tedious chore) in the phonology section. Is that really necessary for this kind of document?
And representing the irregular verb paradigms is another chore not finished. But, I think I’m stuck without some feedback.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">I do thinka good inventory of the irregular verbs is important for any relatively complete account of a Siouan language. There are some very strange conjugations,
especially for learners. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">> I don’t know there are too many ideas to steal, other than dropping the standard IJAL outline that I really hate. I just could not keep doing the 1.1.a stuff
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:rgb(31,73,125)">I hate that outlining system too.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:rgb(31,73,125)">I'll look forward to reading the grammar.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best,</span></p>
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