Locatives and wa- problems.

[ROOD DAVID S]

Dave, Bob, et al.--

 	The Lakota (Dakota?) greeting from man to man, "hau", is a loan 
from somewhere (the phonology is simply wrong for Dakotan).  Has anyone 
figured that out?

 	Also, I should point out that there is currently some substantial 
work with Hocank that perhaps some of the people on this list don't know 
about.  In addition to Iren Hartmann and Johannes Helmbrecht, whom most of 
us know from the conferences, there is a long paper on Hocank morphology 
by Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann in a book I helped edit a few years 
ago, "Lessons from documented endangered languages" (John Benjamin's).

 	Best,
 	David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 
80309-0295 USA rood at colorado.edu


On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, David Costa wrote:

> Bob, are you aware of any Algonquian influences on Hochunk? Despite their being an island of Siouan in a sea of Algonquian languages, they seem to have mixed very little with the Algonquians in Wisconsin. I'm not aware of a single Hochunk loan in any Algonquian language.
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>> It’s hard to say whether the “different” Hochunk pattern represents a retention of something lost everywhere else or an innovation, perhaps brought on by extensive contact with Algonquian,
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