> Hello all.
>
> So, I've finally made a PDF file of my most authoritative
> Grammar of Phaleran, which is available on my website:
>
> <
http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier/phaleran/PhaleranGrammar.pdf>
>
> So far, it runs to only 22 pages, and includes only some ethnographic
> information and sketches of the phonetics, phonology, and nominal
> morphology. (I apparently had just started on the verbal morphology
> when I last worked on it, and it stops in midsentence. Need to fix
> that.) It's positively riddled with misreadings of handwriting,
> contradictions, typos, awkward phrases, and ill-conceived opinions.
> I apparently only half-completed rejiggering the vowel harmony
> system, so the phonetics are particularly screwed up. But then,
> this wouldn't be a true hobby if it weren't screwed up! (See
> Wittgenstein on language evolution.) The Ancients-of-Days among
> you may have actually read some of the text originally on this list;
> I've left much of that virtually unchanged. But, especially with
> respect to case assignment, much else has changed.
>
> Please, if you see problems, or have questions, I would greatly
> appreciate hearing them!
>
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