SCLC submission

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Not to be too picky but it is KU not UK....


John

On , 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.



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