Comparative Siouan Grammar project

Tue Jun 17 14:06:01 UTC 2008

Aloha Johannes,
Many thanks for your suggestions about future SACC agendas.
I have offered to host the 2009 gathering here in Lincoln, Nebraska (the 
center of it all...or the most distant from anywhere else sort of place).

The Dhegihanists have met here back in 2000 or so.

I will be polling folks at Joplin about their interests regarding the 
agenda for 2009.

If there is sufficient interest in organizing a session or three on the 
Comparative Siouan Grammar, Lincoln would be a good time to formalize it 
and push it forward a bit.

There may be interest in organizing a session geared towards language 
instructors from on- and off-rez institutions. I would suspect that the 
Tribal Colleges in NE, SD, and OK might find this useful. Omaha Nation 
Public School (K-12), Walthill Public School, and Winnebago Public School 
could find some value in this as well.

Let's put on our thinking caps as we head to Joplin.

iNcHoNxti woNgithe widoNbe ttamiNkHe.
Uthixide

Mark Awakuni-Swetland
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
and Native American Studies
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368

http://omahalanguage.unl.edu
Phone 402-472-3455
FAX: 402-472-9642

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"Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht" 
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Re: Comparative Siouan Grammar project

Dear Siouanists,

I regret very much that I won't be able to attend this year's SCLC in 
Joplin,MO in particular because 
the program seems to be so interesting. Since I won't be personally there, 
I would like to make 
some suggestions from the other end of the world for the future 
conferences, which may be 
discussed during the conference in Joplin.

One of the exciting projects we started in Billings 2006 was the 
Comparative Siouan Grammar. 
Papers dealing with various aspects of Siouan grammar in a typological and 
historical comparative 
perspective were presented there. We also compiled a list with additional 
topics filling all in all at 
least two volumes. Unfortunately, this project came to a halt afterwards 
and I would like to give it a 
new push. So, my suggestion would be to plan on a follow up workshop on 
Siouan Comparative 
Grammar for the next year's conference, if this goal is still considered 
worthy among the participants 
to invest time and research. Could you discuss this question during the 
coming days? 

For me personally, this implies that I will revise and expand my paper on 
applicatives in Siouan. In 
addition, I volunteered for the causative constructions (if I recall that 
correctly), so I will start to work 
on a draft version on this topic that will be presented at the conference 
next year.

Another important point for me is: I will be able to come next only, if I 
can get funding for an 
overseas trip. This is not too difficult to obtain in particular for such 
a fascinating project, but I need 
the conference details some months in advance in order to be able to apply 
for money. Therefore, I 
would like to ask you to fix a date and location for the next and if 
possible for the conference in two 
years so that people from abroad have a chance to get the necessary 
funding. John Boyle 
mentioned to me that he is going to organize a conference in Chicago in 
2010?

Anyway, I think the meeting in Joplin could provide a good opportunity to 
talk about the state of the 
art with regard to the comparative Siouan Grammar project and to plan on 
the next steps. 
Personally, I would like to participate in the planning, the organization, 
and the research as much as 
I can so that this project will come to a succesful end.

So, I wish all of you a wonderful and interesting meeting in Joplin,

Best,
Johannes

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Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Regensburg
Philosophische Fakultät IV 
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
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