Workshop on Comparative Siouan Grammar - Lincoln 2009

[shokooh Ingham]

Dear Siouanists,
I would also like to present a paper on 'Circumstantial stems', which are what I called 'Demonstarative Stems' in my IJAL paper in 1998
Bruce


--- On Tue, 28/10/08, Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht <johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

> From: Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht <johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>
> Subject: Workshop on Comparative Siouan Grammar - Lincoln 2009
> To: jpboyle at uchicago.edu, siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Date: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008, 1:29 PM
> Dear Siouanists,
> 
> this is just a brief update on the planing of the workshop
> on "Comparative Siouan Grammar" to be held at
> the SACC conference in Lincoln,NE in June 2009. It is a
> reminder and at the same time a call for additional
> participants/ volunteers!
> 
> Up to now, nine people have confirmed to present a paper on
> the workshop:
> 
> Bob Rankin:
> a) Instrumentals b) suffixes/enclitics
> 
> Johannes Helmbrecht:
> Causative constructions
> 
> Willem de Reuse:
> Noun incorporation
> 
> John Boyle:
> Indefinite absolutive *waa-
> 
> Iren Hartmann:
> Modality
> 
> David Rood:
> Serial verb constructions
> 
> Randy Graczyk:
> Switch reference and clause chaining
> 
> Catherine Rudin:
> Coordination (AND, BUT, OR)
> 
> Bryan Gordon:
> Topic- and focus-marking strategies in Omaha-Ponca and
> Jiwere (Bryan could perhaps expand this topic on
> a few other Siouan Languages too)
> 
> If there are further volunteers, please let us know soon
> 
> I would then kindly ask all Siouanists to share their
> expertise and data with these people in case that they
> need additional data to conduct the research necessary for
> their contribution on the workhop.
> 
> I would also suggest that we plan to reserve a time slot
> for the discussion on how to proceed with the CSG
> project. As far as I can see, it will be difficult to find
> volunteers for all the topics I listed in the last mail some
> weeks ago no matter how interesting they are. So we need to
> think about a less ambitious goal with regard
> to the planned volumes. The outcome could be that we aim at
> something like "Topics in Comparative Siouan
> Grammar" or the like. Anyway, we have to address this
> question and we have to create a realistic
> perspective for the research to be presented on this coming
> workshop as well as for the papers that were
> already presented in Billings.
> 
> All the best (also on behalf of John Boyle)
> Johannes
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmbrecht
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