Reduplicated Active verbs

[Emily Schudel]

Hi everyone.

It has been a really long time since I've posted on this list...life
kind of took over for awhile, but now I am back and immersed in my
pursuit for a PhD...back working on the Dakota dialects (specifically
Nakoda and Stoney).

Anyway, I am presently working on a paper on reduplication in the Dakota
dialects (specifically with regards to the relationship of the meaning
of reduplication and the status of the verb and its subject) and was
wondering if anyone had examples of reduplicated transitive active verbs
with inanimate objects - with glosses - in any of the Dakota dialects. 
I have found many example of reduplicated active (and stative) verbs by
searching in every published grammar and related thesis/dissertation I
can find, and in many, many assorted articles, but it seems that finding
the actual meaning of the reduplications is quite another matter!  I
think I have pretty much exhausted every avenue I can think
of...although I am still plowing through a variety of text collections
to see if anything pops up.

Now that I think about it, I would also take examples like this (if they
exist) from other Siouan languages too if anyone can recommend some good
sources of reduplication examples, since I am not as familiar with the
literature for Siouan languages other than the Dakota group.

In the meantime, I will keep searching...

Thanks!

Emily