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Re: USAGE: Miapimoquitch directionals

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, June 16, 2003, 20:43
Quoting Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>:

> On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:23 AM, JS Bangs wrote: > > > Dirk Elzinga sikyal: > > > >> Hey all. > > > > This is good reading, Dirk. [...] > > Thanks. A lot of what I know about lexical suffixes comes from Salish > and Wakashan. In fact, a lot of current Miapimoquitch morphosyntax has > Salish antecedents. I recommend Salish as a rich source of inspiration > for morphosyntax (and phonology! but Salishan phonology is not for the > faint of heart, and didn't provide any models for Miapimoquitch).
Have you ever taken a look at Algonkian languages? They're so gratuitously morphological... they're great! Here's a sample from a story we were reading in Meskwaki (aka Fox): e:hpa:hkisetawa:wa:ci e:h-[pa:hk-ise-t-aw]-a:-wa:-t-i AOR-[open-lay-INAN.OBJ-APP]-DIR-3pl-3-Aor.Conj "They laid it open." (The bracketed bit there is the stem, the internal structure of which is derivational, not inflectionally, determined.) ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>