Re: What would you want to hear Thomas Payne (author of Describing Morphosyntax) speak about?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:04:25 -0700, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:

>This is way too early to be sure of anything yet, but he is a
>plausible speaker for a future LCC.
>
>I'd just like to gather some suggestions from y'all for things you'd
>like to hear him talk about.
>
>See http://www.sil.org/sil/roster/payne_thomas.htm and
>http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/ for his profile & research.
>
>FWIW, he is not himself a conlanger, and would most likely prefer to
>talk about something that's closer to 'straight' linguistics.
>
>Thanks,
>- Sai
His list of papers presented and list of interests provide a fair variety of topics.
I'd like to hear something that goes beyond the book, but can still be followed
by non-linguists.

Jeff