Finally -- the Quapaw sketch.

[R. Rankin]

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