catching up
| From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 13, 2000, 19:00 |
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First, apologies for the accidentally sent empty message just before
this one.
Mayan Calendars
The Mayans did get the Long Count from the Olmecs, and the calendar can
be traced to about 600bce
Sumerian
SOV ergative, accusative in the pronouns,
head and dependant marking, dependant only in PP
2 genders, agreement in possessives, anaphorics, and verbs
plurality neutralization in nouns
French(colloquial)
VSO
Books
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time Johanna Nichol
Phonetic Symbol Guide 2nd ed.
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