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Author:   David Rood ,  John Boyle
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.867kg
ISBN:  

9789004399198

ISBN 10:   9004399194
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editors Introduction Contribution to Siouan linguistics by Robert L.Rankin 1 The Unmarking of Quapaw Phonology: A Study of Language Death 2 Ponce, Biloxi, and Hidatsa glottal stop and Quapaw gemination as historically related accentual phenomena 3 Quapaw: genetic and areal affiliations 4 Review of Languages in the Americas by Joseph H.Greenberg. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp.xvi + 438. 5 Place Name Identification and Multilingualism in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast (with Karen M.Booker and Charles M.Hudson) 6 On the Sources and Scope of Siouan Aspiration With special attention to Mandan, Crow and Hidatsa 7 Deeper Genetic Relationships in North America: Some Tempered Pessimism 8 Siouan-Catawban-Yuchi Genetic Relationship: with a Note on Caddoan 9 The Kaw Nation in Prehistory: What the Kaw Language and Place Names tell us 10 A Diachronic Perspective on Active/Stative Alignment in Siouan 11 On the Sub-grouping of the Virginia Siouan Languages (with Giulia R.M.Oliverio) 12 A synchronic and diachronic perspective on ‘word’ in Siouan (with John Boyle, Randolph Graczyk and John Koontz) 13 On Siouan Chronology 14 An Ofo Grammar Sketch 15 The History and Development of Siouan Positionals with special attention to polygrammaticalization in Dhegiha 16 The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing 17 The Place of Mandan in the Siouan Language Family References

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Robert L. Rankin (1939-2014) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kansas. He earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Chicago, and devoted most of his scholarly effort to diachronic and descriptive work in Siouan, Muskogean, Romance and Slavic. He was the major contributor to the Comparative Siouan Dictionary (available on line from the Max Planck Institute for Applied Anthropology in Leipzig). He authored or co-authored over 50 books and articles on Siouan topics, many of them never published.

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