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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.

Siouan languages. --- Linguistics.

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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.

Siouan languages --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Languages --- Culture --- Ethnology --- E-books --- Siouan languages. --- Languages. --- Catawba-Siouan languages --- Siouan-Catawban languages --- formal/generative linguistics --- comparative/typological linguistics --- applied linguistics --- philological linguistics --- historical-genetic linguistics --- descriptive linguistics --- siouan languages --- Verb --- Verb phrase

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Second volume of instructional materials for learning the original Hochunk language, featuring entire texts and a CD.

Winnebago language --- Indians of North America --- Hocak language --- Hocank language --- Hochangara language --- Hochank language --- Hochunk language --- Nipegon language --- Puant language --- Winebago language --- Siouan languages --- Grammar. --- Phonetics. --- Spoken Winnebago. --- Languages. --- Hocak Wazijaci language --- HoChunk language --- Hoocak language --- Ho-Chunk language --- Spoken Ho-Chunk.