Re: Reference Grammars (was: Doraja (was: Re: TRANS: a haiku)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:25:43 +0200
> > From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>
> > >On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Kristian Jensen wrote:
> > >> BTW, in Appendix 2 of 'Describing Morphosyntax' by Thomas Payne, there
> > >> is a list of grammars that may serve as models of how a grammatical
> > >> description may be organized. The grammars listed have been judged as
> > >> 'successful' by an informal panel of professional and student linguists
> > >> who have actually used reference grammars in their research. I could
> > >> post this list of grammars if interested.
>
> > <span style="placeholder">big snip</span>
>
> I see to my frustration that there is no good grammar of any Inuit
> language. At least not in that list.
>
> So: Can anyone recommend one? Or even better a comparative grammar or
> protolanguage reconstruction for the whole group? (I may have asked
> this before, but I can find no trace of either question or reply in my
> files).
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
Someone asked before although I don't recall who.  My answer at the
time referred to the comparative Eskimauan dictionary from the Alaska
Native Lgs Center (I think I have the name right).  It has Eskimo
reconstructions and often includes Aleut cognates and I believe,
reconstuctions.  Also there is the series of articles that appeared in
International Journal of American Linguistics several decades ago.
I believe the author was Danish, his last name was Berg-something.
Not much help, but I have been on the road allday, I am tired, and
I had 100s of messages to get through.
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