Re: CHAT: I'm back

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Iosad" <edricson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: I'm back


> Hello,
>
> > Tell us about it.  What did you find out?
>
> Well, my special task was verbal morphology (me being only a first year
> student and thus a first-time participant in the fieldwork expeditions,
> I mostly did the difficult formal morphology part - paradigms,
> morphological word classes and such - mostly identifying the forms the
> others couldn'r). What I found out was that Tundra Nenets has a
> hellishly difficult verbal morphology. Of course I can't outscore Dirk
> in terms of the size of the paradigm, but the initial assessment is that
> a full paradigm (jncluding declensions of non-finite forms, which is not
> strictly verbal, of course) of one verb can, when printed out, serve as
> enough wallpaper for a wall at the department. (Legend holds that our
> Head of Dept. has a full Alutor verbal paradigm as wallpaper at home)
Sounds like fun.  I'm going to have to get a course which lets me do
fieldwork.

On a non-linguistic question, as I know little of Russia's internal
geography...how far out into the middle of nowhere are we talking about
here?

> I will of course write the report (the deadline is October 1), but it
> will be in Russian. I might translate it later.
>
> Pavel
> --
> Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru
>
> Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth
>                  --Welsh saying
>

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