SCLC submission

[David Kaufman]

Aloha e Mark,

Excellent!  Mahalo.

Dave

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <
mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

> Aloha David,
> For your consideration.
> Mark Awakuni-Swetland
>
>
> Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference – June 15-17, 2012 – UK-Lawrence
>
>
> *Creeping crawling critters: When we lose the bugs we lose the language*
>
> Mark Awakuni-Swetland
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Anthropology/Ethnic Studies
> Native American Studies
>
> Abstract: This paper inventories Omaha and Ponca terms for insects, worms,
> and spiders. Primary sources include the 19th century Dorsey O/P slip
> file now in the Omaha and Ponca Digital Database (OPDD), Dorsey’s various
> publications, and Fletcher and La Flesche’s *The Omaha Tribe*. Results of
> a survey designed for this paper provides contemporary data. Wherever
> possible the binomial Genus/species is included along with an image of the
> invertebrate. The diminished number of terms for invertebrates - in
> particular - is proposed as one straightforward way to measure the extent
> of language loss as a whole.
>



-- 
David Kaufman, Ph.C.
University of Kansas
Linguistic Anthropology
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