augmentative/diminutive shifting

[ROOD DAVID S]

I can't give you the details from my memory, but for some of the Lakhota
speakers I've worked with, the symbolism is alive and well and used for
both fun and expressive purposes.  I don't believe that finding a bound
morphological origin for it is likely, however, since it affects
(synchronically) medial fricatives as well as initial ones. I don't have
any notes on this, but I would be glad to try to elicit some data if
you're interested and have lots of time -- all the speakers I regularly
work with are away from Boulder at the moment, and I'm on sabbatical and
otherwise preoccupied.  Let me know how urgently you want the data, if at
all.
	David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
Campus Box 295
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 Zylogy at aol.com wrote:

> Is there someone out there who has any idea when various sound-symbolic
> shifts in Siouan languages became unproductive- that is, lexicalized-  in
> most of the languages? Also, family-level cross-linguistic work seems to
> indicate that most of such augmentive/diminutive shifts originate as bound
> morphology. Has any study been done to determine etymological sources within
> Siouan?  Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jess Tauber
> zylogy at aol.com
>