<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Siouan articles are fantastic. I once wrote an article about articles (no pun intended), which some of you may not have seen as it came out in a british periodical</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><div style="margin-left: 18px; text-indent: -18px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Times; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Ingham, B. (2003) ‘The function of the post-nominal element ki~k’un in Lakota’ in<i> Transactions of the Philological Society</i> vol 101 iii p.371-410. ISSN 0079 1636.</span></div></span></div><div>It doesn't add much to what we already know, but I suggested that the 'articles' had something of the nature of a topicalizer.<br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Anyway have a great time at the Siouanists and I hope to see you all again one day. Actually I will be in the Mila Hanska Makhoche my self while the conference is on, but over in Connecticut. Best wishes to all.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Bruce</div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial">
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Rankin, Robert L." <rankin@KU.EDU><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 2 June 2013, 0:17<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Conjugation Of A Sentence in Tutelo-Saponi<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7711109477">
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Aloha nā Siouanists,
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> I had a guess on this sentence if it was UmoNhoN, which I checked with my NoNha. In Omaha, the article would occur, but it would be functioning as a subordinator:
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<div>> MoNhiNskithe bthoN tHe xtaathe.</div>
<div>> Grass.sweet it.smells the I.like</div>
<div>ʻI like the smell of sweetgrassʻ (Or awkwardly but more literally, ʻthat sweet grass smells, I like it.ʻ)</div>
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<div>> Probably Tutelo articles donʻt function anywhere near like Omahaʻs beautiful, powerful articles, but I am wondering if there might not be a subordinator needed there, too. The sentence feels awkward to me without. <br>
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Interesting, Ardis. I bet Tutelo does work the same way. That seems to be a standard Siouan pattern. But I'll defer to my syntactician colleagues.<br>
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Does Omaha use MoNhiNskithe for real sweetgrass? Sounds like a loan-translation from English. The Dakotan term has a cognate in Dhegiha, but it's the word for 'onion'. I was wondering if NE Nebraska has sweetgrass and, if so, what the Omahas and Poncas call
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Bob<br>
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