obviation in Siouan languages

[willemdereuse at unt.edu]

Quoting REGINA PUSTET <pustetrm at yahoo.com>:

>> I wonder what the distribution of these Lakhota/Dakota particles is 
>> relative to
>  "obviation" or "case marking" or whatever else Lakhota/Dakota has in
>  its repertoire.
>
>  To me, there is no evidence for the existence of obviation in 
> Lakota, if we define obviation as a system for manipulating pragmatic 
> perspective.

Regina:

I was wondering if you had any thoughts/ideas about the yuNkhaN/chaNke 
alternation in Lakota.  I agree with Dave Rood's earlier answer to my 
question about this, i.e. that Lungstrum's dissertation has not 
elucidated this convincingly.

There is definitely some sort of alternation in Deloria's Dakota Texts, 
even though texts by (at least some) modern speakers do not seem to 
have this.

Willem de Reuse