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 pa
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
Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twen