"Studies on Comparative Siouan Linguistics"

[Johannes Helmbrecht]

Dear Siouanists,

unfortunately, I was so loaded with all kinds of obligations the last
two/three months that I did not manage to mail around a brief summary
of the decisions of the Round Table of our last conference in
Lioncoln,NE and a reminder to all participants of the project "Studies
in comparative Siouan linguistics".

With regard to the planned first volume, the decisions we came up with
in Lincoln were the following:

August, 20 - a first version of the contribution is due,
October, 20 - comments, additional data etc. from the participants
(including the editors) in the CSG project
should be sent to the authors,
January, 20 - all authors should be able to deliver a kind of final
version
March, 20 - editorial comments will be sent out to the authors,
May, 20 - final manuscripts

As everyone sees, we are far away to meet any of these selfimposed
deadlines.

Up to now, I received only ONE manuscript, the one by Catherine. My own
contribution needs some revisions and additional data, but is not far
from being a real manuscript.

I would like to encourage the other participants of our workshop and of
our project to submit their manuscripts! AND I promis Catherine some
comments soon.

As far as I remember, we also planned to organize another small workshop
on Comparative Siouan Grammar during the upcoming conference in Chicago
in June next year. Since Germans always want to organize things way in
advance - and I am no exception to this - I would like to ask all
Siouanists for paper proposals for this occasion. I myself would like
to present a paper on possession in Siouan. Please send proposals to me
and John Boyle who will organize our next meeting.

I wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody
Best
Johannes