Finally -- the Quapaw sketch.

[Parks, Douglas R.]

Bob,

I have finally had a chance to see why there was a problem with the
portrayal of the vowels in your Quapaw sketch.  In the proofs that you
were sent, they appear just as they do in the printed piece.  In your
proofing you did not indicate that the alignments were incorrect.  The
author is responsible for proofing and catching mistakes like these, and
had you caught them take at that stage, they would have been corrected.

Best -- Doug

__________________________________________________

Douglas R. Parks
Professor of Anthropology
Associate Director, American Indian Studies Research Institute
Indiana University
422 North Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, IN  47408

Phone  812.855.4123
Fax  812.855.7529  ||  E-mail  parksd at indiana.edu  ||  AISRI web site
http://www.indiana.edu/~aisri


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of R. Rankin
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:24 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Finally -- the Quapaw sketch.

I received my freebie copies of _Native Languages of the Southeastern
United
States_ from the
Nebraska Press in the mail today and was relieved to see that they did a
pretty
fair job of reproducing my Quapaw grammar sketch manuscript.  Thus far
the only
errors I've caught are in the listing of the vowel inventory.  The
problem there
seems to be due to the fact that Microsoft Word appears to randomly
destroy
horizontal tabular formatting when identical files with identical
templates are
displayed
on two different computers (I'm sure most of you have experience with
THAT.)

So the Quapaw oral vowel "triangle" came out as a vowel "diamond" when
they set
the type.  It should be:

i

e                     o

           a

. . . but it came out as:

           i

e                     o

          a

Likewise the nasal vowels lost tabular formatting.  They should display
as:

iN

                    oN

         aN

. . . but they emerged as a vertical column:

iN

oN

aN

So if anyone buys or checks out this volume, you might want to make
those minor
corrections.

At least the sketch is finally out, and a lot is now in print that I've
wanted
to
get out for over 10 years.

Bob