flat structures

[Shannon West]

Oh excellent! I have that volume thanks to John Boyle. :) Gives me some nice
reading for the evening.

Thanks.
Shannon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROOD DAVID S [mailto:rood at spot.colorado.edu]
> Sent: July 24, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: Shannon West
> Cc: Siouan (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: flat structures
>
>
>
> Shannon, it's a somewhat different version of the paradigm, but my paper
> on upstairs and downstairs deletion back in CLS 1973 (You take the high
> node and I'll take the low node, paravolume to CLS 9) presumes a
> configurational structure.  Of course in those days there was no such
> distinction -- everything was presumed configurational. However, those
> tree structures might provide evidence for arguing one way or the other.
>
> David
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> 295 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> USA
> rood at colorado.edu
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Shannon West wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for references that refer to Siouan syntax as 'flat' or
> > 'nonconfigurational'. Dakotan would be best, but all others are
> welcome too.
> > I have a few, but the more I can get, the better.
> >
> > Actually, any that say the structure is hierarchical would be
> nifty to have
> > too. I'm finding very little on that kind of syntax.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Shannon
> >
>
>
>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROOD DAVID S [mailto:rood at spot.colorado.edu]
> Sent: July 24, 2002 2:13 PM
> To: Shannon West
> Cc: Siouan (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: flat structures
>
>
>
> Shannon, it's a somewhat different version of the paradigm, but my paper
> on upstairs and downstairs deletion back in CLS 1973 (You take the high
> node and I'll take the low node, paravolume to CLS 9) presumes a
> configurational structure.  Of course in those days there was no such
> distinction -- everything was presumed configurational. However, those
> tree structures might provide evidence for arguing one way or the other.
>
> David
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> 295 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> USA
> rood at colorado.edu
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Shannon West wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for references that refer to Siouan syntax as 'flat' or
> > 'nonconfigurational'. Dakotan would be best, but all others are
> welcome too.
> > I have a few, but the more I can get, the better.
> >
> > Actually, any that say the structure is hierarchical would be
> nifty to have
> > too. I'm finding very little on that kind of syntax.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Shannon
> >
>
>
>