Comparative Siouan Grammar project

[ROOD DAVID S]

I would of course very much like to participate in this undertaking, but 
I'm not sure now exactly what I could do best -- I am so overwhelmed with 
trying to get my Wichita data in order that I don't have much time for new 
Siouan research beyond the conversational documentation efforts we're 
involved in now.  (That work is really just getting off the ground this 
summer; I'll try to keep you informed about its progress.) As for a Lakota 
language sketch, I think the one in the Smithsonian Handbook is probably 
better than anything else I could produce in the next 3-4 years -- I would 
propose exploring the re-publication of that in your volumes, unless you 
do want to dictate a common format for all the languages (maybe you could 
use that as the model??).


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

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Catherine Rudin wrote:

> Johannes - Many thanks for the list!!
>
> By "a whole day" I meant "at least a whole day" :-)
>
> Catherine
>
>>>> "Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht" <johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>
> 06/18/08 6:24 AM >>>
> Dear Siouanists,
>
> taking up Bob's, Mark's and Cathrine's responses to my mail I would like to
> propose the following with regard to our Comparative Siouan Grammar
> (CSG) project. If this can be agreed upon among the participants of the
> conference in Joplin, I would like to volunteer for the organization of the
> workshop on CSG in Lincoln,NE next year.
>
> Cathrine suggested to spend a full day on the workshop. I think, this might
> be very short. In Billings, we had presentation/ papers filling at least two full
> days, although the time slots were quite generous, something like 90
> minutes per presentation. We can of course shorten that a bit. I attach the
> program of the CSG Workshop in Billings as a pdf to this mail.
>
> In Billings, we had a planning session led by Linda Cumberland and John
> Boyle. On the huge blackboard there we outlined and summarized the
> topics to be included in the projected three volume opus of a CSG.
>
> According to my notes and recollections, Vol. III contains sketches of the
> individual Siouan languages following perhaps a common scheme (which
> does not exist yet, of course)
>
> Vol. I contains investigations to the following topics. I will mention also the
> names as far as I can remember (I may be wrong, though).
>
> Obliques/ Postpositions (Regina Pustet)
> Applicatives (including the benefactive applicative) (Johannes Helmbrecht)
> Determiners (?)
> Nominal Possession (?)
> t-words (Bruce Ingham?)
> Prefixes (morphological positions, etc.) (Bob Rankin)
> Suffixes/ Enclitics  (Bob Rankin)
> Relative Clauses (?)
> Switch references and clase chaining (John Boyle)
> Pronominals and the stative/active split (Bob Rankin)
> Deictic motion verbs (Linda Cumberland)
>
> Vol II contains the following topics:
>
> Plural marking
> Compounding
> Noun incorporation
> Causatives (Helmbrecht)
> External Possession
> Coordination
> Subordination
> Instrumentals
> Absolutive (wa-)
> TAM
> Negation
> Serial verbs (David Rood ?)
>
> That's what I have in my notes perhaps John or Linda have more in their
> files.
>
> The topics of the two volumes as given above are unordered and rather a
> list of key words than a systematically developed structure of such a
> project. But it was the point where we stopped further planning. It might
> serve as the starting point for pushing the whole thing further.
>
> As I indicated in my last mail, it would be of some importance for me if I
> knew the precise date of the next conference in Lincoln. So, perhaps, this
> could be decided on in Joplin in the coming days.
>
> I wish everyone a wonderful and exciting conference in Joplin,
>
> Best
> Johannes
>
>