Positionals
shokooh Ingham
shokoohbanou at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 8 17:36:05 UTC 2006
Thanks Bob
Bruce
--- "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:
> You might want to start with the bibliography at the
> end of:
>
>
> The History and Development of Siouan Positionals.
> In Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung,
> 57:202-227 (2004).
>
>
>
> I used a lot of synchronic grammars and text
> collections as sources. I also short-changed Crow
> and Hidatsa for lack of information at the time.
> John and Randy are happily remedying this as we
> speak.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of
> shokooh Ingham
> Sent: Thu 11/2/2006 4:14 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Positionals
>
>
>
> Dear Siouanists,
> Caroline Quintero and myself are trying to put
> something together on positionals in Siouan. We
> have
> information on Osage, Mandan, Lakota and Omaha, but
> are lacking anything on Crow or Winnebago and wonder
> whether anyone can help. Obviously this enquiry is
> aimed mainly at Randy and Johannes, but if anyone
> can
> help from those or other languages, we would be
> grateful. The positional so called are elements
> which
> refer to the attitude, standing, sitting, lying or
> physical shape of items, rather in the way that
> Lakota
> uses yanka 'sit', han 'stand', hpaya 'lie' and
> hiyeya
> 'be scattered' to refer to the existence of items
> which are respectively compact, tall, horizontally
> arranged and numerous. In Mandan I notice that this
> sort of distinction is shown in demonstratives and
> even in verbs by suffix. By comparison I know that
> Yurok has a distinction of different forms of
> numerals
> for different noun classes of a similar type. So
> this
> type of distinction can be shown in various word
> classes. We would be grateful for any
> contributions
>
> Bruce
>
>
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