Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics

Catherine Rudin (ed), Bryan James Gordon (ed)

Synopsis

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.

Chapters

  • A distant genetic relationship between Siouan-Catawban and Yuchi
    Ryan M. Kasak
    Chapter 1
  • Two Siouan languages walk into a sprachbund
    David Kaufman
    Chapter 2
  • Regular sound shifts in the history of Siouan
    Rory Larson
    Chapter 3
  • Ba-be-bi-bo-ra
    Refinement of the Ho-Chunk syllabary in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    Kathleen Danker
    Chapter 4
  • A forgotten figure in Siouan and Caddoan linguistics
    Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812-1880)
    Anthony Grant
    Chapter 5
  • In his own words
    Robert Rankin recalls his work with the Kaw people and their language
    Linda Cumberland
    Chapter 6
  • Perspectives on Chiwere revitalization
    Jimm Goodtracks, Bryan James Gordon, Saul Schwartz
    Chapter 7
  • Reconstructing post-verbal negation in Kansa
    A pedagogical problem
    Justin T. McBride
    Chapter 8
  • Baxoje-Jiwere grammar sketch
    Jill D. Greer
    Chapter 9
  • The phonology of Lakota voiced stops
    David Rood
    Chapter 10
  • The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses in Hidatsa
    John P. Boyle
    Chapter 11
  • A description of verb-phrase ellipsis in Hocąk
    Meredith Johnson
    Chapter 12
  • On the structure and constituency of Hocąk resultatives
    Bryan Rosen
    Chapter 13
  • Evidence for a VP constituent in Hocąk
    Meredith Johnson, Bryan Rosen, Mateja Schuck
    Chapter 14
  • Coordination and related constructions in Omaha-Ponca and in Siouan languages
    Catherine Rudin
    Chapter 15
  • Information-structural variations in Siouan languages
    Bryan James Gordon
    Chapter 16
  • NP-internal possessive constructions in Hoocąk and other Siouan languages
    Johannes Helmbrecht
    Chapter 17

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Biographies

Catherine Rudin, Wayne State College

Catherine Rudin (1954) is Professor of Linguistics at Wayne State College. Though best known for her publications on Slavic and Balkan syntax (2 books and numerous articles), she has also done significant work on Siouan languages, including field work on Omaha-Ponca (1988-1993), the Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary project (Co-PI 2008-11), and is currently at work on a grammar of Omaha-Ponca.

Bryan James Gordon, UmóⁿhoⁿNation Public School in Macy

Bryan James Gordon (1982) is an applied linguistic anthropologist working as instructional, technical and linguistic support for the Title VII UmóⁿhoⁿLanguage and Cultural Center at the UmóⁿhoⁿNation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. He has published on information structure in Siouan and Algonquian languages, colinguistic gesture and sociolinguistics of Spanish-English contact zones, and taken part in documentary projects in Nebraska, Kansas and Panama. His current efforts are focussed on language reclamation in theory and practice.

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December 12, 2016
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Studies in Diversity Linguistics

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Rudin, Catherine & Gordon, Bryan James (eds.). 2016. Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 10). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.17169/langsci.b94.118
Copyright (c) 2016 Catherine Rudin, Bryan James Gordon; Ryan M. Kasak, David Kaufman, Rory Larson, Kathleen Danker, Anthony Grant, Linda Cumberland, Jimm Goodtracks, Saul Schwartz, Justin T. McBride, Jill D. Greer, David Rood, John P. Boyle, Meredith Johnson, Bryan Rosen, Mateja Schuck, Johannes Helmbrecht

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