Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguisticsCatherine Rudin, Bryan J. Gordon The Siouan family comprises some twenty languages, historically spoken across a broad swath of the central North American plains and woodlands, as well as in parts of the southeastern United States. In spite of its geographical extent and diversity, and the size and importance of several Siouan-speaking tribes, this family has received relatively little attention in the linguistic literature and many of the individual Siouan languages are severely understudied. This volume aims to make work on Siouan languages more broadly available and to encourage deeper investigation of the myriad typological, theoretical, descriptive, and pedagogical issues they raise. The 17 chapters in this volume present a broad range of current Siouan research, focusing on various Siouan languages, from a variety of linguistic perspectives: historical-genetic, philological, applied, descriptive, formal/generative, and comparative/typological. The editors' preface summarizes characteristic features of the Siouan family, including head-final and "verb-centered" syntax, a complex system of verbal affixes including applicatives and subject-possessives, head-internal relative clauses, gendered speech markers, stop-systems including ejectives, and a preference for certain prosodic and phonotactic patterns. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert L. Rankin, a towering figure in Siouan linguistics throughout his long career, who passed away in February of 2014. |
Contents
Introduction to Part II 117 | 3 |
A distant genetic relationship between SiouanCatawban and Yuchi | 5 |
Two Siouan languages walk into a sprachbund | 39 |
Regular sound shifts in the history of Siouan | 63 |
Refinement of the HoChunk syllabary in the nine | 83 |
Samuel Stehman | 103 |
Robert Rankin recalls his work with the Kaw people | 117 |
Perspectives on Chiwere revitalization | 133 |
Introduction to Part III | 231 |
The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses in | 255 |
A description of verbphrase ellipsis in Hocąk | 287 |
On the structure and constituency of Hocąk resultatives | 313 |
Evidence for a VP constituent in Hocąk | 339 |
Introduction to Part IV | 365 |
Informationstructural variations in Siouan languages | 393 |
NPinternal possessive constructions in Hoocąk and other Siouan lan | 423 |
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Common terms and phrases
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