"Studies on Comparative Siouan Linguistics"

[Rankin, Robert L]

I hope all of you are having a good holiday.  Here in Kansas we have blizzard conditions and a very White Christmas.

The project to analyze and compare all of the post-verbal affixes and enclitics proved to be more than a one-conference project, as those of you who were at Lincoln no doubt observed.  For that reason, I will be working toward completing this work for this Summer's meeting in Chicago.  There is still much to be done just on this paper alone.

And a note for Johannes:  The "all kinds of obligations" do not end when one retires.  I foolishly thought it would be a period of relaxation and freedom from everything we do as professors.  Ha!  Not so.  I keep telling my wife that THIS year I'm going to retire again.  It probably won't happen. . . .

All the best to everyone in the New Year.

Prosit Neu Jahr!

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of Johannes Helmbrecht
Sent: Tue 12/22/2009 3:41 AM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: "Studies on Comparative Siouan Linguistics"
 
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