Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak

* dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> [001011 20:48]:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> > Heh, yeah, Akan sure did nasty things to my linguistic world-view
> > and that is a very good thing. Too bad the linguistics insitute at
> > my uni. is primarily a pragmatics/semantics/phonology-place.
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^
> Too bad?!! Hmmpf. You should be so lucky as to get a thorough
> grounding in phonology ;-).
Hmpf! You obviously haven't met my phonology-prof... we're the
biggest in the country on African languages (and Japanese for
some reason) not that that says much, and it seems the main
phonologic topic/theme/rheme/whatever is intonation, tonemes
and tones. If I had taken Linguistics 102 (Deep study of a
non-IE language) one year earlier I would have dug into Japanese
instead of Akan but hey I'm not complaining; serial verbs,
verb-noun-constructions and weird idioms are just as cool.


t.