Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Marcus Smith wrote:

> Having read the portion of the thesis concerning Chickasaw,
> I would recommend his thesis to any of you interested in
> learning about active languages. That is accessible to the
> non-specialist (I think) and empirically accurate. He also
> notes exceptions to the general trends and proposes explanations
> for the discrepencies. Granted, we disagree about how accurate
> those explanations are, but that's what you get when a
> functionalist and a generativist talk to each other. :) (To
> his credit, he has at least proposed a solution to a problem
> that I have never even tried to.)
>
> My $.02 worth.
In Swedish we have the word "performance agony". I think that
applies pretty good to me right now. :)

Anyway. I quickly webified the part on Chickasaw (not final!) and
put it on the web - I'm sorry about Word's lame html-ization
capabilities - so anyone (read: Robert Hailman) who wants to have
a quick and small bite of it can take a peek at:

http://www.ling.su.se/arling/chickasaw.html

(It's on my institution's server. I'm having trouble with my own
website's server. Don't tell the institution's webmaster. I'm not
sure if they want to have masterly analyses of Chickasaw activity
on their server... ;-) )

daniel


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