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.