Adverbs in Lakhota

[ROOD DAVID S]

Shannon, there is probably some relevant remark in there somewhere, but
such is not the goal of any of his discussions, so it will take close and
carefuly reading to find it.  There is a little about focus toward the end
of the Lakhota sketch that Allan Taylor and I wrote for the Smithsonian
Handbook vol. 17, which I assume you can find.  Otherwise
as far as I'm concerned this is a subject wide open for further work.
Another place to look first, however, would be in Van Valin's recent
Syntax book in the Cambrdige series.  Many of his illustrations are from
Lakhota, and since he's very much interested in separating syntax, which
for him is the mechanical side of sentence construction including morpheme
order and grammatical morphologly, from what he terms "semantics", which
is everything having to do with meaning including thematic relations,
etc., I would be surprised if he hasn't discussed the issues.
	David
David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
Campus Box 295
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Shannon West wrote:

> I have that one.  It's called "Switch-reference and the Structure of Lakhota
> Narrative Discourse".  1995.  (UMI number 9543116)  I've only glanced at it.
> I'll have to give it a more thorough look.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shannon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert L. Rankin <rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu>
> To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> Sent: December 12, 1999 2:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Adverbs in Lakhota
>
>
> >
> > > Interesting.  Can you point me to some articles on topic/focus in
> > > Siouan? Lakhota, in particular.
> >
> > I'm not certain if this would contain anything you could use, but you
> > might want to look at Richard Lungstrum's Ph.D. dissertation for Penn.  I
> > don't have the exact title at hand, but you could probably search
> > University Microfilms' site by name.  It was defended within the last 4 or
> > 5 years.  (Does this make sense to you David?  You're much more
> > conversant with this subject than I am.)
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
>