[Lexicog] Getting to know you

[R. Rankin]

> > Why don't you introduce yourself and tell what your interests and
activities
> are in lexicography. In what languages have you researched the lexicon? If
you
> are helping produce a dictionary (or have already done so), what language
was it
> for?
>
> I was trained as a Romanist at the University of Chicago and got
interested in
> Siouan languages only after coming to the University of Kansas in 1969.
My
> field work has focussed on Quapaw and Kansa (Kaw), two languages of the
Dhegiha
> subgroup of Siouan.  I have done a certain amount of work with Omaha,
Ponca and
> Osage also, consulting with the Ponca, Quapaw, Osage and Kaw tribes at
different
> times.  My lexical work is with Quapaw and Kaw and I have databases of
around 3
> to 4000 entries for each, excluding most phrasal words, compounds, and
> incorporating verbal constructions (which are productive and hard to
list).  I
> use IDD, the dictionary database software developed an Indiana University,
as it
> enables the compiler to "attach" photos, recordings, etc.  My Kaw
dictionary
> also exists in a practical orthography developed with/for the Kaw Nation
of
> Oklahoma, and I work with their language program on a regular basis.  Both
> Quapaw and Kansa are now extinct languages.
>
> My primary linguistic interests are historical and comparative, and I am
also
> one of three senior editors of the Comparative Siouan Dictionary project
through
> the University of Colorado.  This unpublished database contains about 1200
> reconstructed words based on thousands of cognates from the approximately
16
> Siouan languages.  Hopefully it will see publication sometime soon.
Further
> bibliography can be found in the Siouan on-line bibliography:
> www.puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/siouan_language.html.
>
> And, oh yes, I once taught Wayne Leman linguistics when he was a student
at
> Kansas and can feel a little proud of what he has become.  :-)
>
> Bob Rankin
>
>
>
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