> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to write to the list to announce that two days ago,
> Doug Ball filed for his Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford. His
> dissertation is "Clause Structure and Argument Realization in
> Tongan", and is refreshingly non-Chomskyan. ;) Doug's been
> a member of the list at least since I've been here (around 2000),
> and is the creator of Skerre:
>
>
http://tsketar.tripod.com/skerre/lang.html
>
> In 2000, with the help of his professor Sarah Higley (a.k.a. Sally
> Caves, creator of Teonaht) up at Rochester, he participated in
> the 2000 University Research and Creativity Conference by
> giving a talk on Skerre summarized here:
>
>
http://www.valdyas.org/conlang/skerre.html
>
> And, most recently, he gave a talk entitled "Conlanging and the
> Linear Aspects of Syntax" at the First Language Creation Conference,
> which you can watch here:
>
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5443096435133563349&q=language+creation+conference
>
> Doug is not the type of guy to toot his own horn, so I thought
> I'd do it for him, since I know he has friends here. So, congratulations,
> Doug, and good luck in the untamed wilderness of Academia!
>
> -David
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>
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>
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>