Siouan Languages and Linguistics

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.

• EditorsIntroductionContribution to Siouan linguistics by Robert L.Rankin1 The Unmarking of Quapaw Phonology: A Study of Language Death2 Ponce, Biloxi, and Hidatsa glottal stop and Quapaw gemination as historically related accentual phenomena3 Quapaw: genetic and areal affiliations4 Review of Languages in the Americasby 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 AspirationWith special attention to Mandan, Crow and Hidatsa7 Deeper Genetic Relationships in North America: Some Tempered Pessimism8 Siouan-Catawban-Yuchi Genetic Relationship: with a Note on Caddoan9 The Kaw Nation in Prehistory: What the Kaw Language and Place Names tell us10 A Diachronic Perspective on Active/Stative Alignment in Siouan11 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 Chronology14 An Ofo Grammar Sketch15 The History and Development of Siouan Positionals with special attention to polygrammaticalization in Dhegiha16 The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing17 The Place of Mandan in the Siouan Language FamilyReferences