Siouan Languages and Linguistics

Selected Papers by Robert L. Rankin
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-39919-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Robert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the languages Rankin studied in depth (Quapaw, Kansa, Biloxi, Ofo, and Tutelo) and comparative historical work on the Siouan language family in general. While many of the papers included have been previously published, one third of them have never before been made public including a grammatical sketch and dictionary of Ofo and his final paper on the place of Mandan in the larger Siouan family.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rood, David

Boyle, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.