Siouan-Catawban reduplication - a bunch of questions...

[Lameen Souag]

Thank you, everybody who replied to this question!  Several people expressed
interest in reading the essay; now that I've handed it in, it can be
downloaded from:

http://lameen.googlepages.com/reduplicationinSiouan.doc

The main conclusions were that:

* Proto-Siouan-Catawban (and Proto-Siouan-Yuchi, but not Proto-Macro-Siouan)
productively formed pluractionals from verb stems by full stem
reduplication.  Every branch of the family exhibits reflexes of this
process, although these have often been affected by semantic extensions and
morphological contractions.
* Stoney "adversative" reduplication is most probably borrowed from a Salish
language.

Lameen
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