Adverbs in Lakhota

[Shannon West]

Yes, I have the sketch.  It has been extremely helpful!  I'm waiting for the
Van Valin book, as the library here has just acquired it and is a little
slow getting things into circulation.  Thanks.  And you've given me
_another_ great idea for research.

Shannon

----- Original Message -----
From: ROOD DAVID S <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>
To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
Sent: December 13, 1999 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Adverbs in Lakhota


> 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