Re: Newbie says hi

Amanda Babcock writes:
 > Hi!  Just thought I'd chime in on one of your points -
 >
 > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:07:12PM +0000, Mat McVeagh wrote:
 >
[...]
 >
 > > How about this for a suggestion: a language that doesn't clearly
 > > have the categories "word", "phrase", "sentence". Instead it has
 > > other levels of grammatical scale and structure,
 >
 > I was just reading about this the other day.  I think it was in the
 > book "Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2,
 > Complex Constructions", which I bought a few years ago after it was
 > (yes) recommended on this list :) Anyway, whichever book it was, I
 > was reading a section on chaining languages.  They specifically
 > mentioned that some of these languages seemed to have nothing
 > corresponding to a sentence; rather, they naturally organized into
 > simple clauses and paragraph-length chains of clauses.
 >
As an example of this kind of thing (I think) here's a little story in
Classical Tibetan, with interlinear, which I found on Scott DeLancey's
website.

http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/sb/BOYBIRD.HTM