FW: Siouan languages

[ROOD DAVID S]

I am doing one of these for Wichita, and it's going to require some
elicitation of forms I don't have.  I don't want to do another one, so I'm
not going to claim Lakota here.

I do think it's a fascinating questionnaire, however.

David


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, REGINA PUSTET wrote:

> >Dear Colleagues,
>
> >This arrived in my absence. Some of you may have received it also.
>
> >Bob
>
> I also got this message, and it looks like I'll be doing the Lakota part
> unless somebody else on the list intervenes -- I'm actually encouraging
> you guys to intervene because at the moment, my deadlines are killing me
> and this is not going to change until the end of this year.
>
> Regina
>
>
>
> "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:Dear Colleagues,
>
> This arrived in my absence. Some of you may have received it also.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: idiatov at uia.ua.ac.be [mailto:idiatov at uia.ua.ac.be] On Behalf Of
> idiatov
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:29 AM
> To: Rankin, Robert L
> Subject: Siouan languages
>
>
> Dear Robert (if I may),
>
> I am currently doing a typological study on the use of the interrogative
> pro-nouns meaning 'who?' and 'what?'. To my disappointment, information
> on the use of 'who?' and 'what?' is difficult to find in grammars and
> dictionaries. Therefore, I made up a small questionnaire of some 20
> questions. May I ask you to answer the questions and translate the
> English sentences in the Siouan languages you are most familiar with?
> Even if you can do this only for a part of the questions, it will be of
> great use to me. Any comments you may have, are also welcome. No need to
> say that I will gratefully acknowledge your help when publishing or
> presenting the results. You may find the questionnaire attached as an a
> MS Word file.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dmitry Idiatov
>
> Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology
> University of Antwerp (Belgium)
>
> PS: I presented some of the results of my research at the 6th biennial
> meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology in Padang (Indonesia)
> this year. Please find the handout of my talk as an attachment. I left
> the maps out because they made the pdf-file to big.
>
>
>
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