tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post114656763081359676..comments2024-03-23T01:31:13.502+01:00Comments on Jabal al-Lughat: Reduplication in SiouanLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-1146698757115604392006-05-04T01:25:00.000+02:002006-05-04T01:25:00.000+02:00Siouan-Yuchi looks right to me, from my brief look...Siouan-Yuchi looks right to me, from my brief look at Yuchi (I remember "two" seems a nice cognate), and isn't particularly controversial either; however, I won't claim to have looked into it in any great depth, and pluractional reduplication is sufficiently iconic for independent origin to be a plausible explanation, all other things being equal.<BR/><BR/>There is an article on it only, if you have a subscription: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/465293&erFrom=4688633995808189507GuestLameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13177437.post-1146685717063845612006-05-03T21:48:00.000+02:002006-05-03T21:48:00.000+02:00According to Wikipedia (yes, I know it must be tre...According to Wikipedia (yes, I know it must be treated cautiously) the connections above Siouan-Catawban (that is, to Yuchi, Iroquoian, and Caddoan) are controversial. Does your work provide extra evidence of a connection between Siouan-Catawban and Yuchi?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com