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

daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> 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. :)
We have that phrase too - I understand, I've felt like that manny a
time.

> 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
Hey-o, I kind of vaguely understand that! I haven't had the chance to
read it over carefully yet, but it looks mighty fine. Word sucks at
html-ization. I tried to html-ize something about Ajuk, and it didn't
work at all - it's just as well, as I think it's time for an overhaul of
the grammar.

> (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... ;-) )
There's a lot of things they don't want on their server. You can't
please everybody. :o)

--
Robert