Whitman's Grammar of Ioway-Oto (sic!) For the comparative folks complaining about no data for Jiwere...

[Jill Greer]

Hi, All,
 
Many of you already have a copy of William Whitman's 1947 Descriptive Grammar of Ioway-Oto from IJAL (Sans the last page of the manuscript.  I can get that out later, but it refers primarily to the causative, not to wa-, so it won't matter for now.  For any of you (especially the Windy City folks :) complaining about a lack of material on Chiwere subgroup for your comparative projects (on, things like, Oh,I don't know, maybe wa-  :).  It's brief and densely packed, but I haven't found anything I would consider "wrong" in it yet.  Maybe I just don't know enough to judge.  But it's better than nothing, and surely the "directional" wa- does deserve to be cast in amongst the other worms in the proverbial can...   
 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1262839.pdf
 
 
The conference was truly good, in all ways.  Hope everyone is still inspired to keep the momentum going.  
 
Best wishes,
Jill
 
 
Jill Greer
Assistant Professor
Social Science Department
MSSU
Joplin, MO 64801
greer-j at mssu.edu
 
 
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