Comparative Siouan Grammar workshop

[rwd0002 at unt.edu]

Thanks Bob for interesting comments.  I would be happy to write a short 
piece on noun incorporation across Siouan, as indicated in the 
schedule.  I pretty much have all I need for Dakotan and for Crow 
(thanks to Randy's superb grammar), but if people could send me info 
about the other languages/subdivisions, that would be helpful.

I agree that phonetic obstruents as phonological sonorants is very 
interesting theoretically. There are nice parallels in Athabascan.  
What is reconstructed as Proto-Ath *w comes out as [w], or [m], but in 
some languages as voiced obstruent [b], functioning as a sonorant.

Best to all,

Willem

Bob Rankin wrote:

> Phonetic obstruents as phonological sonorants (b, d, g; m, n, ng; w, r, l).