----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: I'm back
> Pavel Iosad wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Speaks well of your abilities. I'm curious-- since I never took part in
any
> _team expedition_, how many people were involved? Had the language been
> recorded previously? In view of the location, I assume it's related to
> Finnish/Saami/Samoyed etc., whatever that family is called nowadays. (I
had
> the impression you were going off to Siberia, but obviously you were still
> within "Europe").
Nenets is a Samoyedic language, which means it's Uralic(and in the group
opposed to Finnish and Hungarian(Finno-Ugric)).
> Any photos you can post would be great! I'm especially interested since
> (ObConculture!!) some of my Gwr probably live in a similar environment,
and
> I've never, to my knowledge, been north of 52° or so.
>
> Must have been a fascinating trip!! You're lucky.
> Roger.
>