reduplication in Siouan languages (fwd)

[Koontz John E]

Here is a comment from Pat Shaw on Stoney reduplication, posted with her
permission.  I'm not sure if the Garland publication of her dissertation
is still in print, but the dissertation should be available from [the
company formerly known as UMI], and I would hope the book would be widely
available in libraries.  JEK

The original query - available in the archives at

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0103&L=siouan#33

was from: Jess Tauber zylogy at aol.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 1906 06:16:22 -0800
From: Patricia A. Shaw <shawpa at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
Cc: Kathleen Shea <kdshea at falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re: reduplication in Siouan languages

Thanks, Kathy, for having forwarded this to me.

And, Hi John.

The pattern in Stoney is documented in the final chapter of my thesis/book
(1980. Garland Press, NY). To my knowledge, it is unique within in the
Dakota branch, although I would be very interested indeed if anything like
it were to be found elsewhere. First, it applies to the rightmost edge of
the verb domain, including a number (but not all) of the final
suffixes/enclitics in its purview. Other patterns, to my knowledge,
standardly operate on the right Root edge. Also, the semantics of the
Stoney pattern are something that I haven't seen in Dakotan Redup
elsewhere, expressing an 'adversative' meaning, e.g.

Non-reduplicated: he sold my car.
Reduplicated: he went and sold my car on me.

I don't know if it occurs in the more northern Stoney dialects or in any
of the Assiniboine dialects, or not, as I didn't have the opportunity to
work there. Perhaps Ray and Doug checked it out in their survey. Stoney of
course has the familiar plural/iterative/distributive Root-final pattern
as well. My Chapter 6 as a whole deals with comparative aspects of
reduplication in the Lakota, Manitoba Sioux Valley Dakota, and (southern)
Stoney dialects. I hope it will be helpful to you.

I will certainly be interested in the results of your research on this.
Good luck with it.

Best regards,
Pat


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