postpositions

[R. Rankin]

I'd love to read it.  You may recall I did a brief comparison of
Siouan/Catawban/Yuchi pronominals with one of the sets of Caddoan pronominals at
the end of my Siouan Conference paper in Bloomington a few years back.  If
there's a Macro-Siouan, I think Caddoan may be the next twig up the tree.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "ROOD DAVID S" <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: postpositions


>
> Sorry to be so silent for the past couple of weeks -- I won't catch up
> with the "wa" discussion for a couple more weeks, either -- but I can tell
> you that Wichita has neither postpositions nor prepositions, just
> derivational morphology in the verb. There are no PPs, just locative
> arguments for the verbs.  "I sat on the rock" would thus be literally
> "where the rock is, I sat-on-top".  There is a verb I gloss 'to be a
> place' which you can use if you want the locative to be the predicate or
> if there is something weird about including the locative in the main verb.
>
> I have a little paper (very speculative, but kind of fun) on a possible
> way to relate Siouan and Caddoan on this subject.  It's in Fabrice Cavoto
> (ed.), "The Linguist's Linguist: A collection of papers in honour of
> Alexis Manaster Ramer".  Lincom Europa 2002.  The printed title is "If
> Macro-Siouan is real, how will you explain this?"  I think I intended that
> "is" to be "isn't", but it's too late for that now.
>
> David
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> 295 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> USA
> rood at colorado.edu
>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me whether postpositions rather than prepositions are
> > general in Siouan-Caddoan.  I have some sources on Crow, Omaha
> > and Wichita, but they are not clear on that point.
> > Bruce
> >
>